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Pagina 26
... actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish solitude , familiar with the lettuces of the convent - garden , but hearing only faint dim murmurs of the great transactions which they slowly jot down in the barren ...
... actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish solitude , familiar with the lettuces of the convent - garden , but hearing only faint dim murmurs of the great transactions which they slowly jot down in the barren ...
Pagina 48
... acting as interlocutor or eye - witness in a council - chamber three hundred years ago . Mr. Carlyle set this evil precedent in his Life and Letters of Cromwell : but his powers of word - painting are so peculiar , that we forgive in ...
... acting as interlocutor or eye - witness in a council - chamber three hundred years ago . Mr. Carlyle set this evil precedent in his Life and Letters of Cromwell : but his powers of word - painting are so peculiar , that we forgive in ...
Pagina 57
... acting , in the absence of Cortes , as commander of the Spanish garrison in Mexico . " Once being detained in a dense crowd in the square of the great temple , they became unwilling spectators of a human sacrifice . At first they see ...
... acting , in the absence of Cortes , as commander of the Spanish garrison in Mexico . " Once being detained in a dense crowd in the square of the great temple , they became unwilling spectators of a human sacrifice . At first they see ...
Pagina 87
... acting , neutralising , and destroying each other . But , in more special reference to light , Dr. Young's account of the origin of his ideas is so clear and striking , that we must give it in his own words : " It was in May 1801 that I ...
... acting , neutralising , and destroying each other . But , in more special reference to light , Dr. Young's account of the origin of his ideas is so clear and striking , that we must give it in his own words : " It was in May 1801 that I ...
Pagina 179
... actors are distinct and individual , —truthfully , vigorously , felicitously drawn ; masterpieces in their way ; but the personal character of each is not the supreme object of in- terest with the author . It is only a contribution to a ...
... actors are distinct and individual , —truthfully , vigorously , felicitously drawn ; masterpieces in their way ; but the personal character of each is not the supreme object of in- terest with the author . It is only a contribution to a ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 35 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pagina 19 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Pagina 465 - CAMPBELL : — THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS RELATION TO REMISSION OF SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Fourth and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 6s. "Among the first theological treatises of this generation.
Pagina 353 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Pagina 369 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Pagina 336 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Pagina 353 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Pagina 369 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Pagina 354 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Pagina 336 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...