Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine; Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspodence; Orations and Speeches; and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews, Հատոր 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... opinion on this side of the At- lantic . The Edinburgh Review , in an able and elaborate article on Cobbett's writings , despatched his opinions upon the subject now before us in a summary and sweeping denunciation , as " his trash ...
... opinion on this side of the At- lantic . The Edinburgh Review , in an able and elaborate article on Cobbett's writings , despatched his opinions upon the subject now before us in a summary and sweeping denunciation , as " his trash ...
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... opinion , indeed , that a self - taught student would , in these days , be more sure of acquiring a profound and exact knowledge of them than of the modern tongues ; such are the facilities that are afforded by the best grammars ...
... opinion , indeed , that a self - taught student would , in these days , be more sure of acquiring a profound and exact knowledge of them than of the modern tongues ; such are the facilities that are afforded by the best grammars ...
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... opinion upon the various sub- jects which it embraces , in a series of articles that shall appear , as occasion serves , in our future numbers . In the present in- stance , we shall confine ourselves , principally , to the business of ...
... opinion upon the various sub- jects which it embraces , in a series of articles that shall appear , as occasion serves , in our future numbers . In the present in- stance , we shall confine ourselves , principally , to the business of ...
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... opinion of an indivi- dual or two of a new school , or even of ten times as many scores of individuals who - whatever may be their pretensions or their merits in other respects - cannot reasonably bo supposed to be the best of all ...
... opinion of an indivi- dual or two of a new school , or even of ten times as many scores of individuals who - whatever may be their pretensions or their merits in other respects - cannot reasonably bo supposed to be the best of all ...
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... opinion could have es- caped him in any other way than that of ingenious and sportive paradox . These principles ... opinions , the venerable monuments of Gothic architecture , and the gorgeous ornaments of the cathedral and the ...
... opinion could have es- caped him in any other way than that of ingenious and sportive paradox . These principles ... opinions , the venerable monuments of Gothic architecture , and the gorgeous ornaments of the cathedral and the ...
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Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of ..., Հատոր 2 Hugh Swinton Legaré Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1845 |
Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels ..., Հատոր 2 Hugh Swinton Legaré Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1845 |
Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of ..., Հատոր 2 Hugh Swinton Legaré Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1845 |
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Էջ 378 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Էջ 237 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Էջ 342 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His Church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Էջ 345 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Էջ 343 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth 'grow, in effect, into another nature : in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or quite anew ; forms such as never were in nature...
Էջ 346 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Էջ 378 - My Mother Earth ! And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful ? I cannot love ye. And thou, the bright eye of the universe, That openest over all, and unto all Art a delight — thou shin'st not on my heart.
Էջ 438 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Էջ 240 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Էջ 478 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.