The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, Delivered in the Theatre of the Museum of Industry, S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in May and June 1863Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin Bell and Daldy, 1863 - 252 páginas |
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... S. STEPHEN'S GREEN , DUBLIN , IN MAY AND JUNE , 1863 . is series LONDON : BELL AND DALDY , 186 , FLEET STREET . DUBLIN : HODGES AND SMITH , AND MCGEE . 1863 . Recal . 10-25-35 CTM AFTERNOON LECTURES ON LITERATURE . PRESIDENT.
... S. STEPHEN'S GREEN , DUBLIN , IN MAY AND JUNE , 1863 . is series LONDON : BELL AND DALDY , 186 , FLEET STREET . DUBLIN : HODGES AND SMITH , AND MCGEE . 1863 . Recal . 10-25-35 CTM AFTERNOON LECTURES ON LITERATURE . PRESIDENT.
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... with the features of the national mind . Let us fee whether this is fo in fact in the most confpicuous monuments of our own literature . In making this comparative furvey it will be neceffary to confider NATIONAL CHARACTER . II.
... with the features of the national mind . Let us fee whether this is fo in fact in the most confpicuous monuments of our own literature . In making this comparative furvey it will be neceffary to confider NATIONAL CHARACTER . II.
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Página 123 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 64 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
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Página 119 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
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