Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, Band 1Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... tion . A triumph in the field , or in the cabinet , implies only a victory over persons , and the advantage may have been gained as much by the errors of the vanquished , as by the skill of the conqueror ; but the reputation of the poet ...
... tion . A triumph in the field , or in the cabinet , implies only a victory over persons , and the advantage may have been gained as much by the errors of the vanquished , as by the skill of the conqueror ; but the reputation of the poet ...
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... tion , and the stimulus of ambition was not yet roused in my breast . Indolence and the pursuit of mental gratifi- cation had therefore kept me content with reading what others had written , rather than spurred me to write what others ...
... tion , and the stimulus of ambition was not yet roused in my breast . Indolence and the pursuit of mental gratifi- cation had therefore kept me content with reading what others had written , rather than spurred me to write what others ...
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... tion to it . Week after week , and month after month , I went on in my enthusiastic labours . Men often are not aware of what severe and untiring labour they are capable , until they have made trial of their strength . I proceeded with ...
... tion to it . Week after week , and month after month , I went on in my enthusiastic labours . Men often are not aware of what severe and untiring labour they are capable , until they have made trial of their strength . I proceeded with ...
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... tion to employ the night . I sat down by the fire to think over my affairs . During the whole of my absence I had not addressed a single word to Emily , nor had I heard any thing from her . I had wished to bury myself in ab- solute ...
... tion to employ the night . I sat down by the fire to think over my affairs . During the whole of my absence I had not addressed a single word to Emily , nor had I heard any thing from her . I had wished to bury myself in ab- solute ...
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... tion . As little resemblance have the habits of the children of society to the impulses of the children of nature , as the spark on an electric point upon the earth has to the nighty spirit which the thunder - cloud has nursed , bosomed ...
... tion . As little resemblance have the habits of the children of society to the impulses of the children of nature , as the spark on an electric point upon the earth has to the nighty spirit which the thunder - cloud has nursed , bosomed ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance action admiration beauty Ben Jonson Bishop Sprat Bolingbroke bosom Bosphorus breast breath Byron calm character Cicero Coleridge conversation delight divine door dream Emily Emily Wilson excited exhibited existence Falstaff fancy father fear feeling Gauden genius Giaour hand happiness Harold heard heart heaven Henry Pelham honour hope human imagine impression instinct intel intellect interest labour lect letter light live look Lord Lord Byron Lucullus manner Mansfield Park matter ment mental mind moral nation nature ness never night object observed passed passion paused perceived person philosopher pleasure poet poetry PRIDE AND PREJUDICE principle racter reached reason replied says scene scheme seemed sense sentiment Seward silent soul spirit splendid Stanley stood strong Suetonius taste temper thing thought tion true truth Tyler Vathek vigour virtue Vitellius walked whole Wilkins youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 55 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 109 - ... motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
Seite 15 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Seite 203 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Seite 258 - I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow Strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Seite 22 - Tis strange — even those who do despair above, Yet shape themselves some fantasy on earth, To which frail twig they cling, like drowning men. Man. Ay — father ! I have had those earthly visions And noble aspirations in my youth, To make my own the mind of other men, The enlightener of nations ; and to rise I knew not whither — it might be to fall ; But fall, even as the mountain-cataract, Which having leapt from its more dazzling height, Even in the foaming strength of its abyss, (Which casts...
Seite 121 - Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with skill may cause notwithstanding a very unpleasant sound, if the string whereon he striketh chance to be uncapable of harmony. In the matter whereof things...
Seite 258 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.
Seite 238 - And wear, and lose them: yet remains an ear-ring To purchase them again, and this whole state. A gem but worth a private patrimony Is nothing: we will eat such at a meal. The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales. The brains of peacocks and of...
Seite 258 - Among some other talk, in returning, he spoke with praise of Miss Ferrier as a novelist, and then with still higher praise of Miss Austen. Of the latter he said — ' I find myself every now and then with one of her books in my hand. There's a finishing-off in some of her scenes that is really quite above everybody else. And there's that Irish lady, too — but I forget everybody's name now' * Miss Edgeworth,' I said — ' Ay, Miss Edgeworth — she's very clever, and best in the little touches too.