The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary PortraitsOxford University Press, 1954 - 302 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 , tech- nical 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 , tech- nical calculation . The gentleman is ...
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... sense of injustice and of un- deserved ridicule sours the temper and narrows the views . To have produced works of genius , and to find them neglected or treated with scorn , is one of the heaviest trials of human patience . We ...
... sense of injustice and of un- deserved ridicule sours the temper and narrows the views . To have produced works of genius , and to find them neglected or treated with scorn , is one of the heaviest trials of human patience . We ...
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... sense aches at it . ' His verse droops and languishes under a load of beauty , like a bough laden with fruit . His gorgeous style is like ' another morn risen on mid - noon . ' There is no passage that is not made up of blushing lines ...
... sense aches at it . ' His verse droops and languishes under a load of beauty , like a bough laden with fruit . His gorgeous style is like ' another morn risen on mid - noon . ' There is no passage that is not made up of blushing lines ...
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