The American Whig Review, Volumen5Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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... equal . Nay , well - bred gentlemen treat their equals with a far more distant and ceremonious respect than these worshipers do their Maker . We may , indeed , say this manner pro- ceeds from love ; but it is only that kind of love ...
... equal . Nay , well - bred gentlemen treat their equals with a far more distant and ceremonious respect than these worshipers do their Maker . We may , indeed , say this manner pro- ceeds from love ; but it is only that kind of love ...
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... equal freedom and familiarity , is , ob- viously , to mistreat them both ; it sup- poses an equality between them which does not exist ; in a word , it is at strife with the harmony , and therefore at strife with the poetry , of things ...
... equal freedom and familiarity , is , ob- viously , to mistreat them both ; it sup- poses an equality between them which does not exist ; in a word , it is at strife with the harmony , and therefore at strife with the poetry , of things ...
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... equal to a history of my spiritual pro- gresses . For that species of narration I am forced to entertain a distant respect . They awaken in me nothing of that itch of imitation which is the spur of the au- thor's mind . I am contented ...
... equal to a history of my spiritual pro- gresses . For that species of narration I am forced to entertain a distant respect . They awaken in me nothing of that itch of imitation which is the spur of the au- thor's mind . I am contented ...
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... equal potency . What say you to sympathy , my gay romancer ? " To be a dealer in plausibilities , is no part of my plan ; therefore , am not I a politician . " I lack instinct . My states- manship is a thing of closet growth , merely ...
... equal potency . What say you to sympathy , my gay romancer ? " To be a dealer in plausibilities , is no part of my plan ; therefore , am not I a politician . " I lack instinct . My states- manship is a thing of closet growth , merely ...
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... equal curiosity , have I seen in private museums . None more curious than the new one lately foaled at Oxford , in Eng- land , out of a heap of old books by the heat of a dull furor , engendered by nega- tive Apollo , or the devil of ...
... equal curiosity , have I seen in private museums . None more curious than the new one lately foaled at Oxford , in Eng- land , out of a heap of old books by the heat of a dull furor , engendered by nega- tive Apollo , or the devil of ...
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Página 135 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 54 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 122 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale...
Página 403 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 529 - WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles, — and unto graces, graces.
Página 547 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Página 174 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Página 39 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 518 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers...