The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed himself up with personal in- trigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand - bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir ...
... thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed himself up with personal in- trigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand - bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir ...
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... thought and with the prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some expatriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close Boroughs , or planning a code of laws for some ...
... thought and with the prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some expatriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close Boroughs , or planning a code of laws for some ...
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... thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He re- gards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He He meditates the coming age 6 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
... thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He re- gards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He He meditates the coming age 6 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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William Hazlitt. works ( however elaborate or closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illus- tration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valuable as books of reference , as bringing down the account of ...
William Hazlitt. works ( however elaborate or closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illus- tration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valuable as books of reference , as bringing down the account of ...
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... thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space - we must draw the ...
... thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space - we must draw the ...
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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.