Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... charm from the ex- cellent moral tone that pervades the whole collection . Living in a society where licentiousness had ceased to be regarded as criminal , and was countenanced by the almost universal practice of the Court , Madame de ...
... charm from the ex- cellent moral tone that pervades the whole collection . Living in a society where licentiousness had ceased to be regarded as criminal , and was countenanced by the almost universal practice of the Court , Madame de ...
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... charming a piece should ever come to an end . It is throughout at once simple , innocent , touching , and sublime . The plot agrees entirely with the Scripture narrative ; the choruşses , of which the words are borrowed from the Psalms ...
... charming a piece should ever come to an end . It is throughout at once simple , innocent , touching , and sublime . The plot agrees entirely with the Scripture narrative ; the choruşses , of which the words are borrowed from the Psalms ...
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... charm . The graceful eloquence of Fenelon will flow forever through the pages of Telemachus , and the latest posterity will listen with as much , or even greater pleasure than their contemporaries to the discourses of Bossuet and ...
... charm . The graceful eloquence of Fenelon will flow forever through the pages of Telemachus , and the latest posterity will listen with as much , or even greater pleasure than their contemporaries to the discourses of Bossuet and ...
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... charming little pastoral were the principal achievement and are the only lasting memorial of a life of more than seventy years . At the head of the collection is placed a copious biographical notice of the author by Mr Aimé Martin , a ...
... charming little pastoral were the principal achievement and are the only lasting memorial of a life of more than seventy years . At the head of the collection is placed a copious biographical notice of the author by Mr Aimé Martin , a ...
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... charming smile announced to him that he might take courage . Finally she told him , with an air of great kindness , that she was pleased to have him in her service , and that she begged him to learn 82 88 EVERETT'S MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS .
... charming smile announced to him that he might take courage . Finally she told him , with an air of great kindness , that she was pleased to have him in her service , and that she begged him to learn 82 88 EVERETT'S MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS .
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Сторінка 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Сторінка 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Сторінка 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Сторінка 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Сторінка 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Сторінка 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Сторінка 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Сторінка 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...