The Harvard Magazine, Հատոր 2J. Bartlett, 1856 |
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... writer who would go so far as to say that war is a blessing which we can never obtain any substitute for . When we speak of civilization , then , we do not mean progress in Christianity , or even in the principles of morali- ty . It is ...
... writer who would go so far as to say that war is a blessing which we can never obtain any substitute for . When we speak of civilization , then , we do not mean progress in Christianity , or even in the principles of morali- ty . It is ...
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... writing as a master of his art , he wrote also as a leader of the public mind . His opinions , when deliberately uttered , carried with them ... write , " said to him one of his friends , " is decisive . 18 [ Dec. FENELON AND THE QUIETISTS .
... writing as a master of his art , he wrote also as a leader of the public mind . His opinions , when deliberately uttered , carried with them ... write , " said to him one of his friends , " is decisive . 18 [ Dec. FENELON AND THE QUIETISTS .
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... write down to the meanest intellects , thinking such a course the best in the world for keeping their own intellects at a dead - lock , and for encouraging meanness of intellect to think itself judge and sovereign arbiter of all ...
... write down to the meanest intellects , thinking such a course the best in the world for keeping their own intellects at a dead - lock , and for encouraging meanness of intellect to think itself judge and sovereign arbiter of all ...
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... writer for express- ing such thoughts and fancies in a style agreeable to the culture which takes pleasure in them ! But when a man really has nothing to say to any minds at all , cultivated or vulgar , and yet writes sixty pages of the ...
... writer for express- ing such thoughts and fancies in a style agreeable to the culture which takes pleasure in them ! But when a man really has nothing to say to any minds at all , cultivated or vulgar , and yet writes sixty pages of the ...
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... writer for whom , on the whole , the world will have more respect than any mere weaver of verses is likely to receive . Madame de Stael says of somebody she knew , was n't it Mirabeau , " the tiger who had the small - pox " ? - that it ...
... writer for whom , on the whole , the world will have more respect than any mere weaver of verses is likely to receive . Madame de Stael says of somebody she knew , was n't it Mirabeau , " the tiger who had the small - pox " ? - that it ...
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Էջ 306 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Էջ 407 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Էջ 40 - Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken...
Էջ 249 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Էջ 406 - With woful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild.
Էջ 308 - ... buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say : Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ? Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Էջ 129 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Էջ 234 - Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it; Time hath spared the Epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal! durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, then any that stand remembered in the known...
Էջ 148 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Էջ 233 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...