The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... persons who verify the old adage , that " A prophet has most honour out of his own country . " His reputation lies at ... person ; but the Siberian savage has received cold comfort from his lunar aspect , and may say to him with Caliban ...
... persons who verify the old adage , that " A prophet has most honour out of his own country . " His reputation lies at ... person ; but the Siberian savage has received cold comfort from his lunar aspect , and may say to him with Caliban ...
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... person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the mo- ment . Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his speculations concern hu- manity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or ...
... person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the mo- ment . Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his speculations concern hu- manity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or ...
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... person , his dress , and his manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY -or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( JEREMY ...
... person , his dress , and his manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY -or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( JEREMY ...
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... person , instead of a stately assumption of superiority ; a good - humoured , placid intelligence , instead of a lynx - eyed watchfulness , as if it wished to make others its prey , or was afraid they might turn and rend him ; he is a ...
... person , instead of a stately assumption of superiority ; a good - humoured , placid intelligence , instead of a lynx - eyed watchfulness , as if it wished to make others its prey , or was afraid they might turn and rend him ; he is a ...
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... persons for whom they are more particularly designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) are philosophers , and governed by their reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go ...
... persons for whom they are more particularly designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) are philosophers , and governed by their reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go ...
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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.