Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 - 850 pages |
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... object to a measure which they consider as neces- sary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of pre- sumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
... object to a measure which they consider as neces- sary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of pre- sumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
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... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets . with the assistance of a good ...
... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets . with the assistance of a good ...
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... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye ... object of ado- inclined to dwell on it a little longer . ration . Perhaps none of the secondary The most fatal error ...
... objects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner as to present a picture to the mental eye ... object of ado- inclined to dwell on it a little longer . ration . Perhaps none of the secondary The most fatal error ...
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... object to throw ing on their bosoms , weeping over their over their imaginations . This is the graves , slumbering in the manger , bleed - real explanation of the indistinctness ing on the cross , that the prejudices of and ...
... object to throw ing on their bosoms , weeping over their over their imaginations . This is the graves , slumbering in the manger , bleed - real explanation of the indistinctness ing on the cross , that the prejudices of and ...
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... object , he attacked the licensing system , in that sublime trea- tise which every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as front- lets between his eyes . His attacks were , in general , directed less against particular ...
... object , he attacked the licensing system , in that sublime trea- tise which every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as front- lets between his eyes . His attacks were , in general , directed less against particular ...
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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.