Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 1James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch J. Fraser, 1870 Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle. |
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Page 148 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 141 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 182 - I write of youth, of love, and have access By these to sing of cleanly wantonness ; I sing of dews, of rains, and piece by piece Of balm, of oil, of spice and ambergris; I sing of times...
Page 603 - I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ Himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.
Page 339 - No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing — only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Page 46 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 635 - ... to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent distich was preserved for an opportunity of insertion ; and some little fragments have been found containing lines, or parts of lines, to be wrought upon at some other time. He was one of those few whose labour is their pleasure : he was never elevated to negligence, nor wearied to impatience ; he never passed a fault unamended by indifference, nor quitted it by despair.
Page 411 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this ; The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury...
Page 181 - DISCONTENTS IN DEVON MORE discontents I never had Since I was born than here, Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire...
Page 551 - ... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.