Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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الصفحة xii
... ancient classics so thoroughly as to gain no little insight into Greek and Roman life . Alcibiades , Cæsar , and Catiline , seem as real to him as Canning and Wellington . In the papers on Mitford's History of Greece and The Athenian ...
... ancient classics so thoroughly as to gain no little insight into Greek and Roman life . Alcibiades , Cæsar , and Catiline , seem as real to him as Canning and Wellington . In the papers on Mitford's History of Greece and The Athenian ...
الصفحة xxii
... he went into opposition , and some of his ablest speeches were made during the five years the tories were in office . In 1842 , his " Lays of Ancient says , Rome , " were published , and attained xxii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... he went into opposition , and some of his ablest speeches were made during the five years the tories were in office . In 1842 , his " Lays of Ancient says , Rome , " were published , and attained xxii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
الصفحة xxv
... ancient hall , Save when by fits on the low night - wind came The murmur of the distant water - fall . And lo ! the fairy queens who rule our birth Drew nigh to speak the new - born baby's doom : With noiseless step , which left no ...
... ancient hall , Save when by fits on the low night - wind came The murmur of the distant water - fall . And lo ! the fairy queens who rule our birth Drew nigh to speak the new - born baby's doom : With noiseless step , which left no ...
الصفحة xxvii
... ancient days To cheer the cell where Raleigh pined alone : I lighted Milton's darkness with the blaze Of the bright ranks that guard the eternal throne . " And even so , my child , it is my pleasure That thou not then alone shouldst ...
... ancient days To cheer the cell where Raleigh pined alone : I lighted Milton's darkness with the blaze Of the bright ranks that guard the eternal throne . " And even so , my child , it is my pleasure That thou not then alone shouldst ...
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... ancient times , by means of an apologue . About four hundred years after the deluge , King Gomer Chephoraod reigned in Babylon . He united all the characteristics of an excellent sovereign . He made good laws , won great battles , and ...
... ancient times , by means of an apologue . About four hundred years after the deluge , King Gomer Chephoraod reigned in Babylon . He united all the characteristics of an excellent sovereign . He made good laws , won great battles , and ...
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الصفحة 430 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
الصفحة 390 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
الصفحة 267 - There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
الصفحة 322 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
الصفحة 332 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
الصفحة 324 - We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.
الصفحة 256 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
الصفحة 413 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure...
الصفحة 266 - Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faithful. May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
الصفحة 251 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.