Essays and remains, ed. with a mem. by R. Vaughan, Том 2 |
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... fact , he would seem , at one time , to have taken the Carlyle fever , and to have had it very badly indeed . But the sickness did not with him , as with poor Sterling , develope into a life - long disorder . Mr. Kingsley got over his ...
... fact , he would seem , at one time , to have taken the Carlyle fever , and to have had it very badly indeed . But the sickness did not with him , as with poor Sterling , develope into a life - long disorder . Mr. Kingsley got over his ...
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... fact of its ethereal parentage , the leader and lord of all around it , though it knows it not ? A child as yet , it lies upon the fragrant bosom of its mother , Nature , the nurse and yet the enemy of man . Andromache , as the poet ...
... fact of its ethereal parentage , the leader and lord of all around it , though it knows it not ? A child as yet , it lies upon the fragrant bosom of its mother , Nature , the nurse and yet the enemy of man . Andromache , as the poet ...
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... fact , the danger of an inferior workman . In the first case , the book would have lacked interest , in the second , nature . But Mr. Kingsley has contrived , with no little art , to render the incidents of the story themselves ...
... fact , the danger of an inferior workman . In the first case , the book would have lacked interest , in the second , nature . But Mr. Kingsley has contrived , with no little art , to render the incidents of the story themselves ...
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... fact , that the ideas of the Alexandrian thinkers have operated powerfully , under various forms , both to aggravate and to oppose the corruptions of Christianity . In the ninth century John Scotus Erigena found time to translate ...
... fact , that the ideas of the Alexandrian thinkers have operated powerfully , under various forms , both to aggravate and to oppose the corruptions of Christianity . In the ninth century John Scotus Erigena found time to translate ...
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... fact , his capacity for business and for letters was alike extraordinary . He could plod and plan , scrutinize and calculate , as though he had never in his life conceived a fancy , said When made , at last , canon a good thing 72 Life ...
... fact , his capacity for business and for letters was alike extraordinary . He could plod and plan , scrutinize and calculate , as though he had never in his life conceived a fancy , said When made , at last , canon a good thing 72 Life ...
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Сторінка 151 - superest ex nomine multum.' On the side-wall, again, a bookcase with some works of poets. On the wall to the left is a long desk of soft wood, at which he was wont to write. On it lie the original manuscripts of
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Сторінка 152 - brings tears into the eyes, and makes the breathing deep. From the other side of the study we enter the library; which should rather be called a lumber-room of books. Bough deal shelves hold the books, with bits of paper on which are written ' philosophy,'' history,' ' poetry,' &c^ to mark the classification.'—VoL
Сторінка 348 - not a man too much ! Seven generations, haply, to this world, To right it visibly, a finger's breadth, And mend its rents a little.' This is sound philosophy—and the poem has many such wise and large-minded thoughts, vigorously expressed in felicitous and glowing language. Our generation scarcely numbers more than one or two among its
Сторінка 22 - in the wild melodies of old Orphic singers, or before the images of those gods, of whose perfect beauty the divine theosophists of Greece caught a fleeting shadow, and with the sudden might of artistic ecstasy smote it, as by an enchanter's wand, into an eternal sleep of snowy stone—in these there flashes on the inner eye, a vision