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Pagina 7
... short not only of what I read of others , but even of my own ideas of poetry . If any one should imagine I am not in earnest , I desire him to reflect , that the ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that ...
... short not only of what I read of others , but even of my own ideas of poetry . If any one should imagine I am not in earnest , I desire him to reflect , that the ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that ...
Pagina 8
... short a time they , and I , have to live one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ; and what critic can be so unreasonable , as not to leave a man time enough for any more serious employment ...
... short a time they , and I , have to live one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ; and what critic can be so unreasonable , as not to leave a man time enough for any more serious employment ...
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... short time I learnt . My over eagerness in the pursuit of it had brought a weakness in my eyes , that made it necessary to leave off ; and all the advantage I got was the improve- ment of my hand . I see , by hers , that practice will ...
... short time I learnt . My over eagerness in the pursuit of it had brought a weakness in my eyes , that made it necessary to leave off ; and all the advantage I got was the improve- ment of my hand . I see , by hers , that practice will ...
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... do so too ; in short , all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history , previous to great changes and revolutions in Government , now exist , and daily increase LORD CHESTERFIELD . 29 The State of France in 1753.
... do so too ; in short , all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history , previous to great changes and revolutions in Government , now exist , and daily increase LORD CHESTERFIELD . 29 The State of France in 1753.
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... short essays , which essays were the embryos of those productions that now do so much honour to the two nations . Even Spain , which seems not to be the soil where , of late at least letters have either prospered or been culti- vated ...
... short essays , which essays were the embryos of those productions that now do so much honour to the two nations . Even Spain , which seems not to be the soil where , of late at least letters have either prospered or been culti- vated ...
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Pagina 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pagina 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Pagina 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Pagina 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Pagina 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Pagina 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Pagina 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Pagina 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pagina 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Pagina 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.