Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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الصفحة xi
... eye the past was present , and he had the delight of the poet in viewing as things what the historian had recorded in words . All men are more positive in regard to what they have seen than in re- gard to what they have heard . If what ...
... eye the past was present , and he had the delight of the poet in viewing as things what the historian had recorded in words . All men are more positive in regard to what they have seen than in re- gard to what they have heard . If what ...
الصفحة xiv
... eye can hardly fail to perceive beneath the external glitter of the periods , the presence of two qualities which are sound and wholesome , namely , broad common sense , and earnest enthusiasm . Following the article on Milton , came ...
... eye can hardly fail to perceive beneath the external glitter of the periods , the presence of two qualities which are sound and wholesome , namely , broad common sense , and earnest enthusiasm . Following the article on Milton , came ...
الصفحة xvii
... eyes - and a mouth from ear to ear . He has a lisp and burr , moreover , and speaks thickly and huskily for several minutes before he gets into the swing of his discourse ; but after that nothing can be more dazzling than his whole ...
... eyes - and a mouth from ear to ear . He has a lisp and burr , moreover , and speaks thickly and huskily for several minutes before he gets into the swing of his discourse ; but after that nothing can be more dazzling than his whole ...
الصفحة xxvi
... eyes of light And laurels clustering round thy lofty brow , Who by the cradle's side didst watch that night , Warbling a sweet strange music , who wast thou ? " Yes , darling ; let them go ; " so ran the strain : " Yes ; let them go ...
... eyes of light And laurels clustering round thy lofty brow , Who by the cradle's side didst watch that night , Warbling a sweet strange music , who wast thou ? " Yes , darling ; let them go ; " so ran the strain : " Yes ; let them go ...
الصفحة 3
... countenance formed a sin- gular contrast to the general appearance of his person . The high and imperial brow , the keen aquiline feat- ures , the compressed mouth , the penetrating eye , FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 3.
... countenance formed a sin- gular contrast to the general appearance of his person . The high and imperial brow , the keen aquiline feat- ures , the compressed mouth , the penetrating eye , FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 3.
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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.