Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed . For prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . OF ...
... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed . For prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . OF ...
الصفحة 8
... pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so ...
... pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so ...
الصفحة 9
... pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ...
الصفحة 29
... pleasure in the Michelet woods Three summer days to take , " probably , from simple delirium , I might hunt M. Michelet into delirium tremens . Two strong angels stand by the side of History , whether French history or English , as ...
... pleasure in the Michelet woods Three summer days to take , " probably , from simple delirium , I might hunt M. Michelet into delirium tremens . Two strong angels stand by the side of History , whether French history or English , as ...
الصفحة 37
... pleasure to die . And she uttered , between smiles and tears , as a wish that inexpressibly fascinated her heart , and yet was half fantastic , a broken prayer that God would return her to the solitudes from which he had drawn her , and ...
... pleasure to die . And she uttered , between smiles and tears , as a wish that inexpressibly fascinated her heart , and yet was half fantastic , a broken prayer that God would return her to the solitudes from which he had drawn her , and ...
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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.