Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 - 850 pages |
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... characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were dis- cernible in an instant . But ... character . this partiality leads our countryman to The genius of the greatest of the Athe - bestow on " sad ...
... characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were dis- cernible in an instant . But ... character . this partiality leads our countryman to The genius of the greatest of the Athe - bestow on " sad ...
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... character ; and the same pecu- liarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance which we generally find in the superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of ...
... character ; and the same pecu- liarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance which we generally find in the superstitions of Greece . All is rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of ...
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... character of Milton was pecu- loathsome herd , which could be com- liarly distinguished by loftiness of spirit ; pared to nothing so fitly as to the that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , every ...
... character of Milton was pecu- loathsome herd , which could be com- liarly distinguished by loftiness of spirit ; pared to nothing so fitly as to the that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , every ...
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... character of an indi- vidual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that re- lation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to ...
... character of an indi- vidual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that re- lation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to ...
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... character lie on the sur- face . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out . For many years after the Res- toration , they were the theme of un- measured invective and ...
... character lie on the sur- face . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out . For many years after the Res- toration , they were the theme of un- measured invective and ...
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Page 411 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 354 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 17 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Page 398 - ... unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles; it has accelerated motion; it has annihilated distance; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into...
Page 579 - But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh, defend Against your judgment your departed friend. Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But guard those laurels which descend to you.
Page 410 - 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 26 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Page 21 - Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and...
Page 540 - No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin...
Page 386 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward 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 that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.