Essays and Reviews ...D. Appleton, 1848 - 360 էջ |
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... common knowledge of the English language , and the scholar who has mastered its re- finements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye ...
... common knowledge of the English language , and the scholar who has mastered its re- finements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye ...
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Edwin Percy Whipple. may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made pleasing . Statistics , history , biography , political economy , all suffer a transformation into " something rich and strange . " Prosaists are made to love ...
Edwin Percy Whipple. may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made pleasing . Statistics , history , biography , political economy , all suffer a transformation into " something rich and strange . " Prosaists are made to love ...
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... common- place , cant , feebleness of thought , meanness of expression , pomposity of manner , -in short , for all shapes and shades of dulness . The common faults and affectations of men of let- ters , he carefully avoids , and he ...
... common- place , cant , feebleness of thought , meanness of expression , pomposity of manner , -in short , for all shapes and shades of dulness . The common faults and affectations of men of let- ters , he carefully avoids , and he ...
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... common fault of antiquaries , that of deeming puerility and meanness invaluable because they happen to be scarce and old , and of attempting to link some deep meaning to what is simply bombast , affectation , or nonsense , he has ...
... common fault of antiquaries , that of deeming puerility and meanness invaluable because they happen to be scarce and old , and of attempting to link some deep meaning to what is simply bombast , affectation , or nonsense , he has ...
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... common , as well as uncommon , sense ; he deems pain and starvation evils which should be avoided ; he thinks a good home and the certainty of a dinner better than a garret and heaven - soaring imaginations . Such men as Sprague and ...
... common , as well as uncommon , sense ; he deems pain and starvation evils which should be avoided ; he thinks a good home and the certainty of a dinner better than a garret and heaven - soaring imaginations . Such men as Sprague and ...
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Էջ 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Էջ 249 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Էջ 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Էջ 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Էջ 240 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Էջ 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Էջ 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Էջ 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Էջ 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Էջ 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.