The National Review, Volumen3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... appear to ourselves , we are also in some sense what we appear to others ; and though we should hardly be willing to exchange our self - knowledge for that of others , yet should " The Gods the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others ...
... appear to ourselves , we are also in some sense what we appear to others ; and though we should hardly be willing to exchange our self - knowledge for that of others , yet should " The Gods the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others ...
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... appears to have lost as yet but little of the original freshness of its first application . " Old political and social questions too are ever recurring , and every generation will find that some of the satires of a past one have been ...
... appears to have lost as yet but little of the original freshness of its first application . " Old political and social questions too are ever recurring , and every generation will find that some of the satires of a past one have been ...
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... appears in an unfinished form appended to that story . By degrees , how- ever , his engagements absorbed his energies , and his whole time appears to have become devoted to a round of genuine Parisian gaiety . One day goes the same way ...
... appears in an unfinished form appended to that story . By degrees , how- ever , his engagements absorbed his energies , and his whole time appears to have become devoted to a round of genuine Parisian gaiety . One day goes the same way ...
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... appear , and Tom Moore is astonished to find that a British public , which could swallow Little's Poems by an effort , ascribes blasphemy to a work which he flattered himself was the most moral of all his productions , and that there is ...
... appear , and Tom Moore is astonished to find that a British public , which could swallow Little's Poems by an effort , ascribes blasphemy to a work which he flattered himself was the most moral of all his productions , and that there is ...
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... appear- ance in society that we learn from his editor that " his last days were peaceful and happy : his domestic sorrows , his literary triumphs , seem to have faded away alike into a calm repose . He retained to his last moments a ...
... appear- ance in society that we learn from his editor that " his last days were peaceful and happy : his domestic sorrows , his literary triumphs , seem to have faded away alike into a calm repose . He retained to his last moments a ...
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Página 377 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Página 376 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 50 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 360 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
Página 370 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Página 369 - I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 377 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 370 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 50 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 241 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...