Essays from the Times: Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that JournalJohn Murray, 1851 - 310 стор. |
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... suffering is the monitor of kings ? When has it ever proved so ? What instruction gained Charles II . from the murder committed at Whitehall ? Of what use to James II . were his father's invited misfortunes and his own compelled ...
... suffering is the monitor of kings ? When has it ever proved so ? What instruction gained Charles II . from the murder committed at Whitehall ? Of what use to James II . were his father's invited misfortunes and his own compelled ...
Сторінка 89
... Suffering teaches heroism , or it confirms obstinacy . Poverty closes the heart entirely , or opens it to Paradise . It is now our task to describe the checkered fortunes of Louis Philippe , Count de Neuilly . Louis Philippe of Orleans ...
... Suffering teaches heroism , or it confirms obstinacy . Poverty closes the heart entirely , or opens it to Paradise . It is now our task to describe the checkered fortunes of Louis Philippe , Count de Neuilly . Louis Philippe of Orleans ...
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... suffering , that name at once occurs to him ; but it would be a great mistake to attach the idea of feminine soft - heartedness to efforts as vigorous , as deliberate , and as masculine as ever characterised the movements of ...
... suffering , that name at once occurs to him ; but it would be a great mistake to attach the idea of feminine soft - heartedness to efforts as vigorous , as deliberate , and as masculine as ever characterised the movements of ...
Сторінка 141
... Poland , and then home by way of Prussia , Hanover , Holland , and the Austrian Netherlands . In 1783 Howard quitted Falmouth for Spain and Portugal . These countries by no means suffered in comparison with England . The prisons in.
... Poland , and then home by way of Prussia , Hanover , Holland , and the Austrian Netherlands . In 1783 Howard quitted Falmouth for Spain and Portugal . These countries by no means suffered in comparison with England . The prisons in.
Сторінка 142
... suffered in comparison with England . The prisons in both were clean , imprisonment for debt had been abolished , the sexes were separated , and criminals alone suffered detention . Returning to England after this tour Howard published ...
... suffered in comparison with England . The prisons in both were clean , imprisonment for debt had been abolished , the sexes were separated , and criminals alone suffered detention . Returning to England after this tour Howard published ...
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Сторінка 126 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I...
Сторінка 263 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 28 - Could I have rewarded these services I would not now call upon my country ; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank in life.
Сторінка 269 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Сторінка 145 - ... most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading...
Сторінка 28 - Then in sight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about ten miles. " Whereas the eminent services of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king or country.
Сторінка 29 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Сторінка 272 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.
Сторінка 194 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 23 - I hope some day to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton, she is one of the very best women in the world ; she is an honour to her sex.