The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is ...
... sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is ...
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... sense , spirit , and style , with the dust and cobwebs of an obscure solitude . The best of it is , he thinks his present mode of expressing himself perfect , and that what- ever may be objected to his law or logic , no one can find the ...
... sense , spirit , and style , with the dust and cobwebs of an obscure solitude . The best of it is , he thinks his present mode of expressing himself perfect , and that what- ever may be objected to his law or logic , no one can find the ...
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... sense ! Let us pause here a little . — Mr . Godwin in- dulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless understandings of the time . What then ? Because those opinions were overcharged , were they ...
... sense ! Let us pause here a little . — Mr . Godwin in- dulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless understandings of the time . What then ? Because those opinions were overcharged , were they ...
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... sense , cus◅ tom , authority , private and local attachment , in order that he may devote himself to the boundless pursuit of universal benevolence . Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weaknesses of our nature , nor does he ...
... sense , cus◅ tom , authority , private and local attachment , in order that he may devote himself to the boundless pursuit of universal benevolence . Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weaknesses of our nature , nor does he ...
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... sense , to resist the calls of affection , to emancipate ourselves from the force of habit ; and thus , though he has not said it himself , has enabled others to say to the towering aspirations after good , and to the over - bearing ...
... sense , to resist the calls of affection , to emancipate ourselves from the force of habit ; and thus , though he has not said it himself , has enabled others to say to the towering aspirations after good , and to the over - bearing ...
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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.