Essays: Political, Historical, and MiscellaneousW. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... passion . On the subject of marriage , and the reasons for its indis- solubility , our author presents us with the following beautiful observations : - " Habit and a long life together are more necessary to happiness , and even to love ...
... passion . On the subject of marriage , and the reasons for its indis- solubility , our author presents us with the following beautiful observations : - " Habit and a long life together are more necessary to happiness , and even to love ...
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... passions than the judgment . It is a mere chimera to suppose that such aids are to be rejected by the friends of Christianity , or that truth may with safety discard the aid of fancy , either in subduing the passions or affecting the ...
... passions than the judgment . It is a mere chimera to suppose that such aids are to be rejected by the friends of Christianity , or that truth may with safety discard the aid of fancy , either in subduing the passions or affecting the ...
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... passion of love , as we understand it , was unknown to Homer , as much as was the description of nature as a separate and substantive object . He has made the whole Iliad , indeed , turn upon the wrath of Achilles for the loss of ...
... passion of love , as we understand it , was unknown to Homer , as much as was the description of nature as a separate and substantive object . He has made the whole Iliad , indeed , turn upon the wrath of Achilles for the loss of ...
Sivu 45
... passion of Desde- mona for Othello , the devotion of Corinne to Oswald . Homer painted with graphic fidelity and incomparable force , often with extraordinary beauty , the appearances of nature ; but it was as illustrations , or for the ...
... passion of Desde- mona for Othello , the devotion of Corinne to Oswald . Homer painted with graphic fidelity and incomparable force , often with extraordinary beauty , the appearances of nature ; but it was as illustrations , or for the ...
Sivu 47
... passions , it had continued through successive generations . It had survived for centuries , and declined at length less from want of ardour in the cause than from failure of the physical and material resources to maintain at so vast a ...
... passions , it had continued through successive generations . It had survived for centuries , and declined at length less from want of ardour in the cause than from failure of the physical and material resources to maintain at so vast a ...
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