Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... passing of the young men of fifty years ago , of the youths who found them tonic , one would gladly turn exclusively to the brilliant essayists of to - day . But many of them wrote for all time . I should like to quote in this regard ...
... passing of the young men of fifty years ago , of the youths who found them tonic , one would gladly turn exclusively to the brilliant essayists of to - day . But many of them wrote for all time . I should like to quote in this regard ...
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... pass on to my classes . Not that I am dealing always with beauty , for Macaulay is not Burke nor Hazlitt Ruskin . And Macaulay and Hazlitt are both honorable men of letters with much to give in manners of their own . Power , grace ...
... pass on to my classes . Not that I am dealing always with beauty , for Macaulay is not Burke nor Hazlitt Ruskin . And Macaulay and Hazlitt are both honorable men of letters with much to give in manners of their own . Power , grace ...
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... pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is ...
... pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is ...
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... pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance . It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with rea- sons , asking of questions with telling ...
... pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance . It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with rea- sons , asking of questions with telling ...
الصفحة 50
... after hour ; as if nothing special , for it or the world , were passing ! It tolled One when the firing began ; and is now pointing towards Five , and still the firing slakes not . - Far down , in their vaults 50 THOMAS CARLYLE.
... after hour ; as if nothing special , for it or the world , were passing ! It tolled One when the firing began ; and is now pointing towards Five , and still the firing slakes not . - Far down , in their vaults 50 THOMAS CARLYLE.
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admire AGNES REPPLIER American artist beauty Benares bird Bishop of Beauvais Charlotte Corday dark dead death Domrémy earth English essays eyes face fancy fear feel France FRANCIS BACON gentleman give hand Hastings hear heart heaven hour human Hyder Ali India kind permission kingdom of Mysore lady LAFCADIO HEARN less light literary literature living look man's Manhattan Transfer matter mean Médoc mind moral nation nature never Nevermore night once pass peace perhaps person phrase pleasure poem poet poetry prose race ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON seems seen sense side smile soul sound speak speech spirit story style talk things thou thought thousand tion true truth turn verse virtue voice whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wind woman words writing young
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الصفحة 343 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
الصفحة 342 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
الصفحة 267 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries -a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed W my mind, which thus itself subdued.
الصفحة 7 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.