The National Review, Volumen3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... regard . He said he had but one friend , Lord Clare , " and perhaps Thomas Moore . " Of those wild , clever letters he used to write from abroad , partly to amuse his friends at home and partly to amuse himself at their expense , the ...
... regard . He said he had but one friend , Lord Clare , " and perhaps Thomas Moore . " Of those wild , clever letters he used to write from abroad , partly to amuse his friends at home and partly to amuse himself at their expense , the ...
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... regard , he always regarded with aversion and disapproba- tion , and partly because he was prevented by the exigencies of earning a livelihood . He had a real affection for his country , and took , in general , temperate and sensible ...
... regard , he always regarded with aversion and disapproba- tion , and partly because he was prevented by the exigencies of earning a livelihood . He had a real affection for his country , and took , in general , temperate and sensible ...
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... regard to its ultimate tendencies . Dr. Doyle perceived this when he said , in praising the book , that " if St. Augustine were made less heretical , and Scratchenback ( the German professor ) less plausible , the work is one of which ...
... regard to its ultimate tendencies . Dr. Doyle perceived this when he said , in praising the book , that " if St. Augustine were made less heretical , and Scratchenback ( the German professor ) less plausible , the work is one of which ...
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... regard for his father enabled him to accomplish his wishes ; but the service , which involved the highest degree of privation and exposure , soon proved fatal to him . Delicate in constitution , and enfeebled by previous illness , he ...
... regard for his father enabled him to accomplish his wishes ; but the service , which involved the highest degree of privation and exposure , soon proved fatal to him . Delicate in constitution , and enfeebled by previous illness , he ...
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... regards the other sex . The little man struts about among his " girls " and his " Julias " and " Fannys " like a small Mahometan bantam cock . He treats the whole race of women like a set of dolls , vivified only for the sake of the ...
... regards the other sex . The little man struts about among his " girls " and his " Julias " and " Fannys " like a small Mahometan bantam cock . He treats the whole race of women like a set of dolls , vivified only for the sake of the ...
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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...