Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... letter to a friend , if you write one for the sake of writing it , in order to produce a good letter as such , you will probably fail . Who ever read one of Pliny's precious specimens of affectation and formality , without wishing that ...
... letter to a friend , if you write one for the sake of writing it , in order to produce a good letter as such , you will probably fail . Who ever read one of Pliny's precious specimens of affectation and formality , without wishing that ...
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... letters are not sermons , or essays in disguise , but were composed , without any view to publication , for the purpose of talking on paper to a beloved daughter , with whom the writer had in a manner identified her existence . They are ...
... letters are not sermons , or essays in disguise , but were composed , without any view to publication , for the purpose of talking on paper to a beloved daughter , with whom the writer had in a manner identified her existence . They are ...
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... letters with a perfect truth to nature , and a magical grace , vivac- ity and elegance of style . Finally , these remarkable letters derive their last and highest charm from the ex- cellent moral tone that pervades the whole collection ...
... letters with a perfect truth to nature , and a magical grace , vivac- ity and elegance of style . Finally , these remarkable letters derive their last and highest charm from the ex- cellent moral tone that pervades the whole collection ...
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... letters . She hangs with rapture upon the lips of the great pulpit orators , Bossuet , Fléchier , and particularly Bourdaloue , who seems to be her especial favorite . She has even at times a slight leaning towards a severe system of ...
... letters . She hangs with rapture upon the lips of the great pulpit orators , Bossuet , Fléchier , and particularly Bourdaloue , who seems to be her especial favorite . She has even at times a slight leaning towards a severe system of ...
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... letters . In reality , however , the letters , though published during the last century , belong to the preceding one by character , as well as date ; and display the vigor of thought , and the pure taste in style , which characterized ...
... letters . In reality , however , the letters , though published during the last century , belong to the preceding one by character , as well as date ; and display the vigor of thought , and the pure taste in style , which characterized ...
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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...