Essays on English writers, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... few exceptions , from the originals , for the present work . In doing this , I have endeavoured to avoid the well - worn tracks of most of the books of specimens that are at present current . CHAPTER II . THE STUDY OF HISTORY . H ISTORY.
... few exceptions , from the originals , for the present work . In doing this , I have endeavoured to avoid the well - worn tracks of most of the books of specimens that are at present current . CHAPTER II . THE STUDY OF HISTORY . H ISTORY.
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... original along with the latter , which latter corrects the inaccuracies of Hume , supple- ments his matter , and invariably gives a list of the best authorities to be consulted . Hume is a philosophic historian ; that is to be ...
... original along with the latter , which latter corrects the inaccuracies of Hume , supple- ments his matter , and invariably gives a list of the best authorities to be consulted . Hume is a philosophic historian ; that is to be ...
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... original sources , was not so possible as it now is . Now for his virtues . He was , says a late writer , “ a very great man ; and , unfortunately , our history is not always written by very great men . " His history , there- fore , can ...
... original sources , was not so possible as it now is . Now for his virtues . He was , says a late writer , “ a very great man ; and , unfortunately , our history is not always written by very great men . " His history , there- fore , can ...
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... original do- cuments and sources of information , so that his work is very valuable . ' But , " adds a critic - and we quite agree with the censure- " it is undeniable that he has palliated the atrocious murders of St. Bartholomew ...
... original do- cuments and sources of information , so that his work is very valuable . ' But , " adds a critic - and we quite agree with the censure- " it is undeniable that he has palliated the atrocious murders of St. Bartholomew ...
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... original and vigorous writer in his peculiar and unapproached line ; but it is very possible that the nature of his subject and his extremely odd way of putting it will limit the number of his readers . It is to be said , however , that ...
... original and vigorous writer in his peculiar and unapproached line ; but it is very possible that the nature of his subject and his extremely odd way of putting it will limit the number of his readers . It is to be said , however , that ...
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Essays on English Writers, by the Author of "The Gentle Life" James Hain Friswell Vista completa - 1869 |
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Página 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 57 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day 1 O first-created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Página 157 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 47 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows ; And when we meet at any time again Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 261 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 59 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 241 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Página 57 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Página 242 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Página 94 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...