MiscellaniesCarey and Hart, 1842 - 308 من الصفحات |
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... say , in the words of Bacon , that , to his understanding , he finds nothing in it contrary , or infectious to the state of religion , or manners ; but rather , as he supposes , medicinable . If such be its character , he believes it ...
... say , in the words of Bacon , that , to his understanding , he finds nothing in it contrary , or infectious to the state of religion , or manners ; but rather , as he supposes , medicinable . If such be its character , he believes it ...
الصفحة 11
... creations of his genius , Master Hum- phrey's Clock had a circulation much more numerous than any of his previous works . When I say that Dickens is , with two exceptions , the most popular author , I do not design to CHARLES DICKENS . 11.
... creations of his genius , Master Hum- phrey's Clock had a circulation much more numerous than any of his previous works . When I say that Dickens is , with two exceptions , the most popular author , I do not design to CHARLES DICKENS . 11.
الصفحة 20
... says , was born a hundred and fifty years old , and was gradually coming down to five and twenty . This one sentence contains a description of a fine character : that of a man advanced in life , whose love of all young and beautiful ...
... says , was born a hundred and fifty years old , and was gradually coming down to five and twenty . This one sentence contains a description of a fine character : that of a man advanced in life , whose love of all young and beautiful ...
الصفحة 21
... say of Kate ? No Italian master ever painted a more beautiful portrait on canvass than Dickens has deline- ated in this lovely character . Like Rosamund Gray , she is " gentle as a smiling infant - affectionate as a weaned lamb . " But ...
... say of Kate ? No Italian master ever painted a more beautiful portrait on canvass than Dickens has deline- ated in this lovely character . Like Rosamund Gray , she is " gentle as a smiling infant - affectionate as a weaned lamb . " But ...
الصفحة 26
... the energy , without which judgment is cold , and know- ledge is inert . But the mind of Dickens is scarcely matured . He has not yet arrived at the age beyond which , Dr. Johnson says , the mind never advances 26 CHARLES DICKENS .
... the energy , without which judgment is cold , and know- ledge is inert . But the mind of Dickens is scarcely matured . He has not yet arrived at the age beyond which , Dr. Johnson says , the mind never advances 26 CHARLES DICKENS .
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الصفحة 62 - I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
الصفحة 47 - The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences.
الصفحة 147 - Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit. " 2. The names of the prophets and the holy writers, with the other names in the text, to be retained, as near as may be, accordingly as they are vulgarly used.
الصفحة 130 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
الصفحة 24 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life — not one who had lived and suffered death.
الصفحة 48 - So to see Lear acted - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.
الصفحة 189 - Thou art my father:" to the worm, "Thou art my mother, and my sister.
الصفحة 50 - Oh! my friend, I think sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose? not those 'merrier days,' not the 'pleasant days of hope...
الصفحة 25 - When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
الصفحة 100 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.