Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, المجلد 1Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... soul and a strength of aspiration which made me far other than I was before , that I trod the path which led me home . I was even as if a new spirit had entered into me , -a " mounting spirit , " that filled me with ambition , and ...
... soul and a strength of aspiration which made me far other than I was before , that I trod the path which led me home . I was even as if a new spirit had entered into me , -a " mounting spirit , " that filled me with ambition , and ...
الصفحة 30
... soul into the zero that lies between : and man enveloping within him capacities for good that might dwarf an angel ... souls , what I shall relate of myself at this time may seem incredible because it is unusual ; wanting sympathy with ...
... soul into the zero that lies between : and man enveloping within him capacities for good that might dwarf an angel ... souls , what I shall relate of myself at this time may seem incredible because it is unusual ; wanting sympathy with ...
الصفحة 31
... soul could not sustain The beauty still more beauteous ! A wave of deep emotion swelled through my bosom , as I looked into the clear blue sky , and influences of sacred joy floated to me through the crystal air . That grand old man ...
... soul could not sustain The beauty still more beauteous ! A wave of deep emotion swelled through my bosom , as I looked into the clear blue sky , and influences of sacred joy floated to me through the crystal air . That grand old man ...
الصفحة 32
... soul to tenderness that , often , as if it had been a harp - string of living nerve , the faintest breath of passion could delight it almost to agony . - 66 In a tremor of gladness , my frame quivering with emo- tion , I looked back on ...
... soul to tenderness that , often , as if it had been a harp - string of living nerve , the faintest breath of passion could delight it almost to agony . - 66 In a tremor of gladness , my frame quivering with emo- tion , I looked back on ...
الصفحة 46
... soul as we inhale at a glance the vastness of the scene . Upon the face of the deep , the spirit of eternity still is brooding : as we pause before this wide unbarriered space , and our naked mind stands bold against the unveiled ...
... soul as we inhale at a glance the vastness of the scene . Upon the face of the deep , the spirit of eternity still is brooding : as we pause before this wide unbarriered space , and our naked mind stands bold against the unveiled ...
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acquaintance action admiration beauty Ben Jonson Bishop Sprat Bolingbroke bosom Bosphorus breast breath Byron calm character Cicero Coleridge conversation delight divine door dream Emily Emily Wilson excited exhibited existence Falstaff fancy father fear feeling Gauden genius Giaour hand happiness Harold heard heart heaven Henry Pelham honour hope human imagine impression instinct intel intellect interest labour lect letter light live look Lord Lord Byron Lucullus manner Mansfield Park matter ment mental mind moral nation nature ness never night object observed passed passion paused perceived person philosopher pleasure poet poetry PRIDE AND PREJUDICE principle racter reached reason replied says scene scheme seemed sense sentiment Seward silent soul spirit splendid Stanley stood strong Suetonius taste temper thing thought tion true truth Tyler Vathek vigour virtue Vitellius walked whole Wilkins youth
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الصفحة 55 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 109 - ... motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
الصفحة 15 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
الصفحة 203 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
الصفحة 258 - I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow Strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
الصفحة 22 - Tis strange — even those who do despair above, Yet shape themselves some fantasy on earth, To which frail twig they cling, like drowning men. Man. Ay — father ! I have had those earthly visions And noble aspirations in my youth, To make my own the mind of other men, The enlightener of nations ; and to rise I knew not whither — it might be to fall ; But fall, even as the mountain-cataract, Which having leapt from its more dazzling height, Even in the foaming strength of its abyss, (Which casts...
الصفحة 121 - Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with skill may cause notwithstanding a very unpleasant sound, if the string whereon he striketh chance to be uncapable of harmony. In the matter whereof things...
الصفحة 258 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.
الصفحة 238 - And wear, and lose them: yet remains an ear-ring To purchase them again, and this whole state. A gem but worth a private patrimony Is nothing: we will eat such at a meal. The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales. The brains of peacocks and of...
الصفحة 258 - Among some other talk, in returning, he spoke with praise of Miss Ferrier as a novelist, and then with still higher praise of Miss Austen. Of the latter he said — ' I find myself every now and then with one of her books in my hand. There's a finishing-off in some of her scenes that is really quite above everybody else. And there's that Irish lady, too — but I forget everybody's name now' * Miss Edgeworth,' I said — ' Ay, Miss Edgeworth — she's very clever, and best in the little touches too.