The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... passage in Homer , or a metre in Virgil . He was afterwards at the University , and he has described the scruples of an * Now Lord Colchester , He is ingenuous youthful mind about subscribing the ar- ticles 24 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
... passage in Homer , or a metre in Virgil . He was afterwards at the University , and he has described the scruples of an * Now Lord Colchester , He is ingenuous youthful mind about subscribing the ar- ticles 24 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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... passage in his Church - of - Englandism , which smacks of truth and honour both , and does one good to read it in an age , when " to be honest " ( or not to laugh at the very idea of honesty ) " is to be one man picked out of ten ...
... passage in his Church - of - Englandism , which smacks of truth and honour both , and does one good to read it in an age , when " to be honest " ( or not to laugh at the very idea of honesty ) " is to be one man picked out of ten ...
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... thought to have rendered a service to navi- gation and his country , no less by proving that there is no North - West Passage , than if he had ascertained that there is one : so Mr. Godwin has rendered WILLIAM GODWIN . 43.
... thought to have rendered a service to navi- gation and his country , no less by proving that there is no North - West Passage , than if he had ascertained that there is one : so Mr. Godwin has rendered WILLIAM GODWIN . 43.
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... passage in a speech on General Warrants delivered by Lord Chatham , at which he ( Mr. Faw- cett ) had been present . Every man's house " ( said this emphatic thinker and speaker ) " has been called his castle . And why is it called his ...
... passage in a speech on General Warrants delivered by Lord Chatham , at which he ( Mr. Faw- cett ) had been present . Every man's house " ( said this emphatic thinker and speaker ) " has been called his castle . And why is it called his ...
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... passage from either with an agreeable mixture of pedantry and bonhommie . He is not one of those who do not grow wiser with opportunity and reflection : he changes his opinions , and changes them for the better . The alteration of his ...
... passage from either with an agreeable mixture of pedantry and bonhommie . He is not one of those who do not grow wiser with opportunity and reflection : he changes his opinions , and changes them for the better . The alteration of his ...
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Сторінка 143 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Сторінка 362 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Сторінка 58 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Сторінка 398 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Сторінка 262 - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
Сторінка 363 - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Сторінка 382 - Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Сторінка 191 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Сторінка 145 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 383 - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.