The National Review, Band 3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... influence to bend him . from any course which to his own ideas of honour or propriety seemed the true one . And his sense of propriety was nice , and his spirit of independence high . His Life of Lord Byron is a good one , and he ...
... influence to bend him . from any course which to his own ideas of honour or propriety seemed the true one . And his sense of propriety was nice , and his spirit of independence high . His Life of Lord Byron is a good one , and he ...
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... influence of O'Connell , whose whole course , in spite of some per- sonal 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 ...
... influence of O'Connell , whose whole course , in spite of some per- sonal 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 ...
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... influences ; and he is a curious instance of how little a man can receive through the senses alone without the aid of a prepared imagination . He never felt the finer influences of things ; none but the very commonest and most ...
... influences ; and he is a curious instance of how little a man can receive through the senses alone without the aid of a prepared imagination . He never felt the finer influences of things ; none but the very commonest and most ...
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... influence of Aristotle upon his pupil's disposition ; the relations between the old Macedonian faction which regarded the vanquished as the Spaniards regarded the Indians , and the par- tisans of the king who aided him in his design of ...
... influence of Aristotle upon his pupil's disposition ; the relations between the old Macedonian faction which regarded the vanquished as the Spaniards regarded the Indians , and the par- tisans of the king who aided him in his design of ...
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... influence on the Macedonian prince , his military genius must in the highest degree have interested and instructed him . The most virtuous of Theban citizens was also the ablest soldier in Greece . He had adopted and improved upon the ...
... influence on the Macedonian prince , his military genius must in the highest degree have interested and instructed him . The most virtuous of Theban citizens was also the ablest soldier in Greece . He had adopted and improved upon the ...
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Seite 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!
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...