Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... considered a man of letters . Not that he was in- different to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his ...
... considered a man of letters . Not that he was in- different to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his ...
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... considered by those whose good opinion are not worth having as a great judge of character . It is said that the hasty and rapacious Kneller used to send away the ladies who sate to him as soon as he had sketched their faces , and to ...
... considered by those whose good opinion are not worth having as a great judge of character . It is said that the hasty and rapacious Kneller used to send away the ladies who sate to him as soon as he had sketched their faces , and to ...
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... considered as dull , on sub- jects which men of great talents have in vain endeavored to render popular . When we compare the Historic Doubts about Richard the Third with Whitaker's and Chalmers's books on a far more interesting ...
... considered as dull , on sub- jects which men of great talents have in vain endeavored to render popular . When we compare the Historic Doubts about Richard the Third with Whitaker's and Chalmers's books on a far more interesting ...
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... considered as his best per- formances , and , we think , with reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily ...
... considered as his best per- formances , and , we think , with reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily ...
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... considered as his match . Con- fident in his talents , and in the royal favor , he neglected all those means by which the power of Walpole had been created and maintained . His head was full of treaties and expeditions , of schemes for ...
... considered as his match . Con- fident in his talents , and in the royal favor , he neglected all those means by which the power of Walpole had been created and maintained . His head was full of treaties and expeditions , of schemes for ...
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Page 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
Page 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
Page 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
Page 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
Page 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
Page 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
Page 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
Page 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...