Essays from the London Times: A Collection of Personal and Historical Sketches, Том 2D. Appleton, 1852 - 301 стор. |
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... direct to Eng- land " in the hope of employment on active service . " Such a Paladin is the fiery son of the calm and unde- monstrative Sir Robert . A BIOGRAPHER . 19 BIOGRAPHY . — MEMOIRS OF LORD 18 CAPTAIN PEEL IN THE NUBIAN DESERT .
... direct to Eng- land " in the hope of employment on active service . " Such a Paladin is the fiery son of the calm and unde- monstrative Sir Robert . A BIOGRAPHER . 19 BIOGRAPHY . — MEMOIRS OF LORD 18 CAPTAIN PEEL IN THE NUBIAN DESERT .
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... BIOGRAPHER , as described by Mr. Macaulay , is a literary vassal , bound by the immemorial law of his tenure , to render homage , aids , reliefs , and all other customary services to his lord . " But a biographer , according to modern ...
... BIOGRAPHER , as described by Mr. Macaulay , is a literary vassal , bound by the immemorial law of his tenure , to render homage , aids , reliefs , and all other customary services to his lord . " But a biographer , according to modern ...
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... the organ- boy who kills you with his discord , and then asks remuneration for his crime . When those interesting sen- tences were printed , what peculiar feature in Lord Lang- dale's character did his biographer wish to illustrate ? As.
... the organ- boy who kills you with his discord , and then asks remuneration for his crime . When those interesting sen- tences were printed , what peculiar feature in Lord Lang- dale's character did his biographer wish to illustrate ? As.
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... biographer . It has been said of Montaigne that when he strikes a little out of the common road his readers are sure to be the better for his wandering . " The best quarry lies not always in the open field , and it is worth while to ...
... biographer . It has been said of Montaigne that when he strikes a little out of the common road his readers are sure to be the better for his wandering . " The best quarry lies not always in the open field , and it is worth while to ...
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... biographer , he was ostentatious in doing honour to his Tory rival . Lord Brougham offered Mr. Bickersteth a barony of the Exchequer in 1834 , but the dignity was haughtily declined . The same Chancellor , a few months later , placed ...
... biographer , he was ostentatious in doing honour to his Tory rival . Lord Brougham offered Mr. Bickersteth a barony of the Exchequer in 1834 , but the dignity was haughtily declined . The same Chancellor , a few months later , placed ...
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Сторінка 125 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
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 49 - 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 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 94 - 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 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 51 - THAT each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Сторінка 55 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Сторінка 94 - Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those years looking down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle, attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express contributions to poetry, philosophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment had been small and sadly...