Oxford English Prize Essays, Nide 4

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D.A. Talboys, 1830
 

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Sivu 153 - Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Sivu 30 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Sivu 19 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Sivu 140 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Sivu 68 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have be,en esteemed useful engines of government.
Sivu 158 - In assuming that the influence of the Crusades upon the Arts and Literature of Europe was at once extensive and beneficial, reference has been made to remote and accidental, rather than to immediate, consequences.
Sivu 250 - ... upon the greater degree of influence which the State governments, if they administer their affairs with uprightness and prudence, will generally possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutions; and that too much pains cannot be taken in their organization, to give them all the force which is compatible with the principles of liberty.
Sivu 221 - Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion.
Sivu 30 - As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must, however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives.
Sivu 88 - Lucent genialibus altis aurea fulcra toris, epulaeque ante ora paratae regifico luxu ; Furiarum maxima iuxta 605 accubat et manibus prohibet contingere mensas, exsurgitque facem attollens atque intonat ore. Hie quibus invisi fratres, dum vita manebat, pulsatusve parens, et fraus innexa clienti, aut qui divitiis soli incubuere repertis 610 nee partem posuere suis (quae maxima turba est), quique ob adulterium caesi, quique arma secuti impia nee veriti dominorum fallere dextras, inclusi poenam exspectant.

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