Essays from the London Times: Second SeriesD. Appleton, 1852 - 261 стор. |
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... England of the day - the Tenny- sons , Dickens , Carlyles , Thackerays , Kingsleys . It is proposed from time to time to continue these Collections , and a novel volume is in preparation to consist entirely of LEADERS FROM THE LONDON ...
... England of the day - the Tenny- sons , Dickens , Carlyles , Thackerays , Kingsleys . It is proposed from time to time to continue these Collections , and a novel volume is in preparation to consist entirely of LEADERS FROM THE LONDON ...
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... England on the 20th of August , 1851 , on board the Pottinger , for Alexandria ; and he embarked " With the object of travelling in Soudan , hoping , by the blessing of the Almighty , to help to break the fetters of the negro , to ...
... England on the 20th of August , 1851 , on board the Pottinger , for Alexandria ; and he embarked " With the object of travelling in Soudan , hoping , by the blessing of the Almighty , to help to break the fetters of the negro , to ...
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... England , where he gave lessons in Arabic and Italian . Captain Peel became his pupil , and they travelled together in the East . After a happy tour the travellers returned to England , and M. Churi recommenced his teaching . Captain ...
... England , where he gave lessons in Arabic and Italian . Captain Peel became his pupil , and they travelled together in the East . After a happy tour the travellers returned to England , and M. Churi recommenced his teaching . Captain ...
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... England . " At 5 next morning the party were early afoot - having drunk water for their breakfast — and until 8 , when a halt was cried , they marched " under the sickening heat of a morning sun without food . " Faint from hunger the ...
... England . " At 5 next morning the party were early afoot - having drunk water for their breakfast — and until 8 , when a halt was cried , they marched " under the sickening heat of a morning sun without food . " Faint from hunger the ...
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... do their utmost to please the son of the late Prime Minis- ter of England . The name of Sir Robert is a shield and buckler to Sir Robert's son . Khartoum is an Arabic word signifying " the gullet of the throat , " and is so applied because.
... do their utmost to please the son of the late Prime Minis- ter of England . The name of Sir Robert is a shield and buckler to Sir Robert's son . Khartoum is an Arabic word signifying " the gullet of the throat , " and is so applied because.
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Сторінка 121 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Сторінка 48 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Сторінка 45 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out— to some one of his race: So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Сторінка 45 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say ' This poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
Сторінка 44 - Practiser in Physic.) Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well...
Сторінка 90 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Сторінка 50 - Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein?
Сторінка 89 - What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave uncredited; at your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of "reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat; — and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces!
Сторінка 106 - ... till when there was some hope he might have been a prisoner, though his nearest friends, who knew his temper, received small comfort from that imagination. Thus fell that incomparable young man in the four-and-thirtieth year of his age, having so much despatched the true business of life that the eldest rarely attain to that immense knowledge, and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency. Whosoever leads such a life, needs be the less anxious upon how short warning it is taken...
Сторінка 134 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.