The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits, Band 2Colburn, 1825 - 424 Seiten |
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... least fault with the purity , simplicity , and perspicuity of his style . Mr. Bentham , in private life , is an amiable and exemplary character . He is a little romantic , or so ; and has dissipated part of a handsome fortune in ...
... least fault with the purity , simplicity , and perspicuity of his style . Mr. Bentham , in private life , is an amiable and exemplary character . He is a little romantic , or so ; and has dissipated part of a handsome fortune in ...
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... least show of reason in it ? Is the Modern Philosophy ( as it has been called ) at one moment a youthful bride , and the next a withered beldame , like the false Duessa in Spenser ? Or is the vaunted edifice of Reason , like his House ...
... least show of reason in it ? Is the Modern Philosophy ( as it has been called ) at one moment a youthful bride , and the next a withered beldame , like the false Duessa in Spenser ? Or is the vaunted edifice of Reason , like his House ...
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... least indispensable virtue in the new perfecti- bility code ; and it was hence discovered to be a scheme , like other schemes where there are all prizes and no blanks , for the accommodation of the enter- prizing and cunning , at the ...
... least indispensable virtue in the new perfecti- bility code ; and it was hence discovered to be a scheme , like other schemes where there are all prizes and no blanks , for the accommodation of the enter- prizing and cunning , at the ...
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... least ) an experimentum crucis to show the weak sides and imperfections of human reason as the sole law of human action . By overshooting the mark , or by " flying an eagle flight , forth and right on , " he has pointed out the limit or ...
... least ) an experimentum crucis to show the weak sides and imperfections of human reason as the sole law of human action . By overshooting the mark , or by " flying an eagle flight , forth and right on , " he has pointed out the limit or ...
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... least , we may claim this advantage for the English author , that the chains with which he rivets our attention are forged out of his own thoughts , link by link , blow for blow , with glowing enthusiasm : we see the genuine ore melted ...
... least , we may claim this advantage for the English author , that the chains with which he rivets our attention are forged out of his own thoughts , link by link , blow for blow , with glowing enthusiasm : we see the genuine ore melted ...
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Seite 363 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Seite 143 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 362 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 58 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Seite 398 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
Seite 262 - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
Seite 70 - Diminished shrunk from the more withering scene ! Ah Bard tremendous in sublimity ! Could I behold thee in thy loftier mood Wandering at eve with finely frenzied eye Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood ! Awhile with mute awe gazing I would brood : Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy ! LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY COOMB, SOMERSETSHIRE, MAY, 1795.
Seite 382 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Seite 191 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Seite 262 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.