Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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الصفحة xxxiii
... interest us is as evident in his account of the Bank of England as in his account of the Massacre of Glencoe . We pass from one topic to another without any sense of the connection of topics . Picture succeeds picture as in the anarchy ...
... interest us is as evident in his account of the Bank of England as in his account of the Massacre of Glencoe . We pass from one topic to another without any sense of the connection of topics . Picture succeeds picture as in the anarchy ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... interest in particulars is obtained at the expense of general effect . It is only by turning to the table of contents that we are able to generalize the events of a reign . There are scores of pages in the third and fourth volumes which ...
... interest in particulars is obtained at the expense of general effect . It is only by turning to the table of contents that we are able to generalize the events of a reign . There are scores of pages in the third and fourth volumes which ...
الصفحة 75
... interest can we read of beings of whose personal existence the writer does not suffer us to entertain , for a moment , even a conventional belief ? Even Spenser's allegory is scarce- ly tolerable , till we contrive to forget that Una ...
... interest can we read of beings of whose personal existence the writer does not suffer us to entertain , for a moment , even a conventional belief ? Even Spenser's allegory is scarce- ly tolerable , till we contrive to forget that Una ...
الصفحة 81
... interest , fear , scarcely prevent those who are condemned to listen to it from indicating their disgust and fatigue . The childless uncle , the powerful patron , can scarcely extort this compliance . We leave the inside of the mail in ...
... interest , fear , scarcely prevent those who are condemned to listen to it from indicating their disgust and fatigue . The childless uncle , the powerful patron , can scarcely extort this compliance . We leave the inside of the mail in ...
الصفحة 82
... interest , than any other lines in his poems . It is amusing to observe with what labour critics have attempted to glean from the poems of Homer some hints as to his situation and feelings . According to one hypothesis , he intended to ...
... interest , than any other lines in his poems . It is amusing to observe with what labour critics have attempted to glean from the poems of Homer some hints as to his situation and feelings . According to one hypothesis , he intended to ...
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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.