Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksGeorge H. Evans, 1832 - 296 páginas |
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... labored to provide juvenile books ; and sometimes , perhaps , these well - meant endeavors push the mind onward with too much rapidity , and in this pressure of acqui- sition , the storing the memory may be considered by some the same ...
... labored to provide juvenile books ; and sometimes , perhaps , these well - meant endeavors push the mind onward with too much rapidity , and in this pressure of acqui- sition , the storing the memory may be considered by some the same ...
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... labor - saving machines , have given leisure to millions , who in former days de- voted themselves principally to industrious methods for producing clothing or food . But to return from this digression to the current his- 16.
... labor - saving machines , have given leisure to millions , who in former days de- voted themselves principally to industrious methods for producing clothing or food . But to return from this digression to the current his- 16.
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... labors as a secretary were of great service to the government . It is pleasant to mark the utility of the labors of these men of minstrelsy of early days . Society may be compared to an inverted pyramid , supported , not by the laws of ...
... labors as a secretary were of great service to the government . It is pleasant to mark the utility of the labors of these men of minstrelsy of early days . Society may be compared to an inverted pyramid , supported , not by the laws of ...
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... labored for the beau ideal in po- litics , and our experience has never found his republic , yet he left thoughts that are imperishable , embalmed in words of taste and beauty . Wilson , the rhetorician , deserves to be remembered among ...
... labored for the beau ideal in po- litics , and our experience has never found his republic , yet he left thoughts that are imperishable , embalmed in words of taste and beauty . Wilson , the rhetorician , deserves to be remembered among ...
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... labors of body and mind which they were called to perform . The dif- ference between the literature of that day and the pre- sent , I mean that which is current among a majority of the community , is this - their literature was best to ...
... labors of body and mind which they were called to perform . The dif- ference between the literature of that day and the pre- sent , I mean that which is current among a majority of the community , is this - their literature was best to ...
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Página 257 - Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf. Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design, Moves like a ghost.
Página 254 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Página 69 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Página 53 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Página 253 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Página 104 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Página 64 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 157 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Página 52 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Página 69 - Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...