Critical and Historical Essays: Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress. Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Burleigh and his times. Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in Spain. Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann. Thackeray's History of the Earl of Chatham. Sir James Mackintosh's History of the RevolutionB. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 |
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Стр. 308 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Стр. 4 - Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, — that things which are not should be as though they were, — that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
Стр. 118 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Стр. 329 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Стр. 16 - Bunyanis delightful to every reader , and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Стр. 15 - Faithful. May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Стр. 24 - ... pour guerre, c'est Angleterre; et tombe le sort et le malheur sur ceux qui font la guerre.
Стр. 52 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Стр. 12 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, " to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in J the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and, after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light...
Стр. 88 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.