Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewAlbert Mason, 1875 - 850 pages |
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... soon as he attracts notice to his blance to some of his dramas . Con- personal feelings , the illusion is broken . | sidered as plays , his works are absurd ; The effect is as unpleasant as that considered as choruses , they are above ...
... soon as he attracts notice to his blance to some of his dramas . Con- personal feelings , the illusion is broken . | sidered as plays , his works are absurd ; The effect is as unpleasant as that considered as choruses , they are above ...
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... Soon , however , plenty teaches discre- tion ; and , after wine has been for a few months their daily fare , they be- come more temperate than they had ever been in their own country . In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits ...
... Soon , however , plenty teaches discre- tion ; and , after wine has been for a few months their daily fare , they be- come more temperate than they had ever been in their own country . In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits ...
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... soon as they appear . He is just idiot enough to be an object , not of pity or horror , but of ridicule . He bears some resemblance to poor Calan - Paulus Jovius designates the Mandragola Nothing can be more evident than that drino ...
... soon as they appear . He is just idiot enough to be an object , not of pity or horror , but of ridicule . He bears some resemblance to poor Calan - Paulus Jovius designates the Mandragola Nothing can be more evident than that drino ...
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... soon been lost among the crowd which is mingled " A quel cattivo coro Degli angeli , che non furon ribelli , Ne fur fedeli a Dio , ma per se foro . " And the onl , notice which it would have been necessary to take of his name would have ...
... soon been lost among the crowd which is mingled " A quel cattivo coro Degli angeli , che non furon ribelli , Ne fur fedeli a Dio , ma per se foro . " And the onl , notice which it would have been necessary to take of his name would have ...
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... soon found that hundred and fifty years , the servile they were unable to injure him , and handmaid of monarchy , the steady that the animosity which the Puritan enemy of public liberty . The divine party felt towards them drove them of ...
... soon found that hundred and fifty years , the servile they were unable to injure him , and handmaid of monarchy , the steady that the animosity which the Puritan enemy of public liberty . The divine party felt towards them drove them of ...
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Page 413 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 413 - 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 29 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High.
Page 19 - We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning! It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress, his handsome face, and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most of his popularity with the present generation. For ourselves, we own that we do not understand the common phrase,...
Page 135 - Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting-place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The...
Page 543 - Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Page 20 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Page 389 - 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. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Page 414 - We see in needleworks 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 where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 186 - Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.