The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico . He has offered constitutions for the New World , and legis- lated for future times . The people of ...
... side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico . He has offered constitutions for the New World , and legis- lated for future times . The people of ...
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... side of his conclu- sions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will . " He has not ...
... side of his conclu- sions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will . " He has not ...
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... side of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the ...
... side of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the ...
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... side as a bedfellow ? Or his rolling himself into a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes , that came rushing on like the sound of thunder ...
... side as a bedfellow ? Or his rolling himself into a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes , that came rushing on like the sound of thunder ...
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... side of a chrystal lake , hid by the mist , but glittering in the wave below , may conceive the dim , gleaming , uncertain in- telligence of his eye : he who has marked the evening clouds uprolled ( a world of vapours ) , has seen the ...
... side of a chrystal lake , hid by the mist , but glittering in the wave below , may conceive the dim , gleaming , uncertain in- telligence of his eye : he who has marked the evening clouds uprolled ( a world of vapours ) , has seen 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.