Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Page 2469
... learned to project myself enough out of myself ; and having no offspring of my own to dally with , I turn back upon memory , and adopt my own early idea , as my heir and favorite ? If these speculations seem fantastical to thee , reader ...
... learned to project myself enough out of myself ; and having no offspring of my own to dally with , I turn back upon memory , and adopt my own early idea , as my heir and favorite ? If these speculations seem fantastical to thee , reader ...
Page 2493
... learned society , a society devoted to Shakespeare and to the stage , was taken in by a boy of eighteen . Young Ireland not only palmed off his sham docu- ments , most makeshift imitations of the antique , but even his ridiculous verse ...
... learned society , a society devoted to Shakespeare and to the stage , was taken in by a boy of eighteen . Young Ireland not only palmed off his sham docu- ments , most makeshift imitations of the antique , but even his ridiculous verse ...
Page 2494
... learned society , his son , Mr. W. H. Ireland , ac- quired not only a passion for black letters , but a desire to emu- late Chatterton . His first step in guilt was the forgery of an autograph on an old pamphlet , with which he ...
... learned society , his son , Mr. W. H. Ireland , ac- quired not only a passion for black letters , but a desire to emu- late Chatterton . His first step in guilt was the forgery of an autograph on an old pamphlet , with which he ...
Page 2495
... learned , pompous , sagacious people listened attentively to the papers . One feels half inclined to forgive the rogue for the sake of his youth , his cleverness , his humor . But the " Confessions " are , not improbably , almost as ...
... learned , pompous , sagacious people listened attentively to the papers . One feels half inclined to forgive the rogue for the sake of his youth , his cleverness , his humor . But the " Confessions " are , not improbably , almost as ...
Page 2497
... learned " the whole art of composition . He was born at Macon , Georgia , February 3d , 1842. His father , Robert S. Lanier , was a lawyer of ability and standing ; and the family had sufficient means to educate Sidney at Oglethorpe ...
... learned " the whole art of composition . He was born at Macon , Georgia , February 3d , 1842. His father , Robert S. Lanier , was a lawyer of ability and standing ; and the family had sufficient means to educate Sidney at Oglethorpe ...
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Page 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Page 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Page 2728 - 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.
Page 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Page 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...