Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Հատոր 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... soul of wit . And so an essay commends itself by its very brevity . We read it quickly . But mere brevity does not make every literary composition an The news paragraphs with which our daily papers teem are not essays . Novelettes or ...
... soul of wit . And so an essay commends itself by its very brevity . We read it quickly . But mere brevity does not make every literary composition an The news paragraphs with which our daily papers teem are not essays . Novelettes or ...
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... of operation , - a method by which the human soul takes hold on the transitory phenomena of a natural order in which a Supreme Will is eternally operating to produce infinite improvement . It is said by his critics I - I.
... of operation , - a method by which the human soul takes hold on the transitory phenomena of a natural order in which a Supreme Will is eternally operating to produce infinite improvement . It is said by his critics I - I.
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... soul , very pure and so much attached to uprightness that he made it his constant care and dearest pleasure . " Perhaps no other sentence has been written which has in it so much of the secret of Addison's greatness , but Taine quotes ...
... soul , very pure and so much attached to uprightness that he made it his constant care and dearest pleasure . " Perhaps no other sentence has been written which has in it so much of the secret of Addison's greatness , but Taine quotes ...
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... of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for JOSEPH ADDISON 53 The Vision of Mirza.
... of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for JOSEPH ADDISON 53 The Vision of Mirza.
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... soul is hovering in the last mo- ments of its separation , when it is just entering on another state of existence , to converse with scenes , and objects , and companions , that are altogether new , what can support her under JOSEPH ...
... soul is hovering in the last mo- ments of its separation , when it is just entering on another state of existence , to converse with scenes , and objects , and companions , that are altogether new , what can support her under JOSEPH ...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Հատոր 1 David Josiah Brewer Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1908 |
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Էջ 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Էջ 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Էջ 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Էջ xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Էջ 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Էջ 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Էջ 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Էջ 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Էջ 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Էջ 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...