The National Review, Band 3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... moral courage and a ready command of his faculties which never failed him in his dealings with men . His account of the scene was long ago published in one of his prefaces to the collected edition of his poems ; but we cite it , as a ...
... moral courage and a ready command of his faculties which never failed him in his dealings with men . His account of the scene was long ago published in one of his prefaces to the collected edition of his poems ; but we cite it , as a ...
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... moral restraint having both sound arguments and high authority in its favour . " It might be a very good thing , and it might not ; for himself , he found it irksome , and let it alone . In a similar spirit he seems to have waved any ...
... moral restraint having both sound arguments and high authority in its favour . " It might be a very good thing , and it might not ; for himself , he found it irksome , and let it alone . In a similar spirit he seems to have waved any ...
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... moral of all his productions , and that there is a vast deal of mournful head - shaking over it . The wretched author , who would not for the world touch the sensitive theolo- gical antennæ of the British public , is all dismay ...
... moral of all his productions , and that there is a vast deal of mournful head - shaking over it . The wretched author , who would not for the world touch the sensitive theolo- gical antennæ of the British public , is all dismay ...
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... moral . It is only when adopted by the grave historian that they become pre- judicial , since the light words of Scapin or the commonplaces of Zeno are then apt to ossify into popular convictions . The fables which relate to Alexander ...
... moral . It is only when adopted by the grave historian that they become pre- judicial , since the light words of Scapin or the commonplaces of Zeno are then apt to ossify into popular convictions . The fables which relate to Alexander ...
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... moral cowardice or placid indifference : we only claim for them an exemption from the charge of being in every case prin- cipals in the matter , and we protest against the shield of their supposed deliberate opinion being thrown over ...
... moral cowardice or placid indifference : we only claim for them an exemption from the charge of being in every case prin- cipals in the matter , and we protest against the shield of their supposed deliberate opinion being thrown over ...
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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...