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... doubt , is due in part to a certain mental laziness in the public concern- ing matters of literature . Each essay is a short book , which can be read in an hour or two ; it requires no intellectual effort from the reader , rather it ...
... doubt , is due in part to a certain mental laziness in the public concern- ing matters of literature . Each essay is a short book , which can be read in an hour or two ; it requires no intellectual effort from the reader , rather it ...
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... doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation , much elegance , ingenuity , and tenderness . They present us with a mixture which can only be com- pared to the whimsical concert described by the humor- ous ...
... doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation , much elegance , ingenuity , and tenderness . They present us with a mixture which can only be com- pared to the whimsical concert described by the humor- ous ...
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... doubt that Shakspeare was in a great measure pro- duced by the Reformation , and Wordsworth by the French Revolution ? Poets often avoid political transac- tions ; they often affect to despise them . But , whether they perceive it or ...
... doubt that Shakspeare was in a great measure pro- duced by the Reformation , and Wordsworth by the French Revolution ? Poets often avoid political transac- tions ; they often affect to despise them . But , whether they perceive it or ...
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... the bewilder- ing effect of sudden bad tidings , the stupefaction , the vague doubt of the truth of our own perceptions which they produce , will understand the following simile : " I -- was as he is who dreameth his own harm , DANTE 15.
... the bewilder- ing effect of sudden bad tidings , the stupefaction , the vague doubt of the truth of our own perceptions which they produce , will understand the following simile : " I -- was as he is who dreameth his own harm , DANTE 15.
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... doubt he shall be called a blockhead . I cannot , however , refrain from asking what is the particular virtue which belongs to four- teen as distinguished from all other numbers . Does it arise from its being a multiple of seven ? Has ...
... doubt he shall be called a blockhead . I cannot , however , refrain from asking what is the particular virtue which belongs to four- teen as distinguished from all other numbers . Does it arise from its being a multiple of seven ? Has ...
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absurd admiration appears argument aristocracy Bentham century character Charles Church common constitution Croker Dante Demosthenes departments of France despotism Divine Comedy doctrines doubt Dryden Edinburgh Review effect eminent England English equal evil exist fact favor fecundity feelings genius greatest happiness greatest happiness principle Greek Hallam Herodotus historians honor human nature imagination interest Italy Johnson King language less liberty literature lived Lord Lord Byron Machiavelli manner marriages means ment Mill Mill's Milton mind Mitford monarchy moral nations never noble object opinion Parliament party passions person Petrarch pleasure poems poet poetry political population Prince produced prove readers reason religion respect Revolution Robert Montgomery Sadler scarcely seems society sophisms Southey spirit square mile strong style superfecundity taste tells theory things Thucydides tion truth Utilitarian wealth Westminster Reviewer whole words writer
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Sivu 738 - he probably expected to be immortal, is every day fading; while those peculiarities of manner and that careless table-talk, the memory of which he probably thought would die with him, are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe. JOHN BUNYAN
Sivu 280 - shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no / peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will
Sivu 281 - was made by an apprentice out of the pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master. It is so far superior to every other in the church, that, according to the tradition, the vanquished artist killed himself from ' mortification. Sir Walter Scott, in the same manner, has
Sivu 77 - causes, and to deduce from it consequences unfavorable to Athens, and to popular governments, than to throw light on the character and doctrines of the wonderful man, " From whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics, old and new, with those
Sivu 734 - travels, except that there was a snake in one of the pyramids of Egypt? " History was, in his opinion, to use the fine expression of Lord Plunkett, an old almanac: historians could, as he conceived, claim no higher dignity than that of almanac-makers; and his favorite historians were those who, like Lord
Sivu 279 - operation of government and laws, he knows nothing; He who would understand these things rightly must not confine his observations to palaces and solemn days. He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business and in their ordinary pleasures. He
Sivu 498 - has scarcely ever displayed, even in those well-constituted minds of which she occupies the throne, so much power and energy as in the lowest offices of that imperial servitude. Now, in the mind of Mr. Southey reason has no place at all, as either leader or follower, as either sovereign or
Sivu 278 - But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman can bear to the good or evil of a great social system. Bishop Watson compares a geologist to a gnat mounted on an elephant, and laying down theories as to the whole
Sivu 574 - If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower. He is, in truth, a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised.
Sivu 698 - a man who makes money by means of love? In fact, it requires no Bentley or Casaubon to perceive that Philarchus is merely a false spelling for Phylarchus, the chief of a tribe. Mr. Croker has favored us with some Greek of his own. "At the altar," says Dr. Johnson, "I recommended my 9