The Note Book of an English Opium-eaterTicknor and Fields, 1855 - 294 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 288 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 197 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
الصفحة 89 - Travels," a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
الصفحة 119 - And why? Not as one who invited men to a banquet by his gorgeous eloquence, but as one that gave a signal to shoals in the House of Commons for seeking refuge in a literal dinner from the oppression of his philosophy. This was, perhaps, in part a scoff of his opponents.* Yet there must have been some foundation for the scoff, since, at an earlier stage of Burke's career, Goldsmith had independently said, that this great orator " Went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of...
الصفحة 289 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
الصفحة 202 - I, myself, who once said in print of him — that it is not the correct way of speaking, to say that Wordsworth is as proud as Lucifer ; but, inversely, to say of Lucifer that some people have conceived him to be as proud as Wordsworth. But, if proud, Wordsworth is not...
الصفحة 109 - Johnson's leave) is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings, — being substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication-table, of commonplaces the 1 Bernard Mandeville, philosophical writer, 1670-1733. — M. most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps, — since nothing is said worth answering, it is sufficient to answer nothing.
الصفحة 264 - Not having any pistols or razors, he ran for a short distance, in order to aid the impetus of his descent, and leaped over a precipice, at the foot of which he was dashed to pieces. His motive to the ' rash act,' as the papers called it, was supposed to be mere tcedium vita.
الصفحة 23 - And even supposing all three together with the baby locked in sleep, still how unaccountable was this utter — utter silence! Most naturally at this moment something like hysterical horror overshadowed the poor girl, and now at last she rang the bell with the violence that belongs to sickening terror. This done, she paused : self-command enough she still retained...
الصفحة 94 - Defoe wrote a style for all the world the same as to kind and degree of excellence, only pure from Hibernicisms. So did every honest skipper (Dampier was something more) who had occasion to record his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what wonder should there be in this, when the main qualification for such a style was plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness, some little scholarly practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, so...