Essays from the London Times: Second SeriesD. Appleton, 1852 - 261 стор. |
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... leaves stuccoed with mud , about eight feet high , pulverised by the sun , " a heap of dirt and dust standing on the accumulated rubbish of cen- turies . " Yet not wholly unhappy villager , as his fine form and serene countenance ...
... leaves stuccoed with mud , about eight feet high , pulverised by the sun , " a heap of dirt and dust standing on the accumulated rubbish of cen- turies . " Yet not wholly unhappy villager , as his fine form and serene countenance ...
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... go forward . Hear one of them in the burning and oppressive silence . He has left life behind him , but death is his companion : - " Take care , or you will stumble over its victim Leave the road , you perish ; follow the track.
... go forward . Hear one of them in the burning and oppressive silence . He has left life behind him , but death is his companion : - " Take care , or you will stumble over its victim Leave the road , you perish ; follow the track.
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Second Series Samuel Phillips. Leave the road , you perish ; follow the track of the caravan , and rotting carcases are its milestones . Why is the voice of the caravan so hushed , and why do you urge your camel's speed ? See ! Your ...
Second Series Samuel Phillips. Leave the road , you perish ; follow the track of the caravan , and rotting carcases are its milestones . Why is the voice of the caravan so hushed , and why do you urge your camel's speed ? See ! Your ...
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... leaves the scent behind him , tires us with his hedges and ditches , but gives us no sport . And yet had he been willing or able to write Lord Langdale's life plainly and simply , comprehending the subject in 150 pages instead of 900 ...
... leaves the scent behind him , tires us with his hedges and ditches , but gives us no sport . And yet had he been willing or able to write Lord Langdale's life plainly and simply , comprehending the subject in 150 pages instead of 900 ...
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... leave behind him as many valid reasons for clutching at the good fortune which the more abstemious Master of the Rolls suffered to pass by him . Be this as it may , Lord Langdale con- tinued at his old post until he resigned on account ...
... leave behind him as many valid reasons for clutching at the good fortune which the more abstemious Master of the Rolls suffered to pass by him . Be this as it may , Lord Langdale con- tinued at his old post until he resigned on account ...
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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.