The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 Seiten |
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... pass backwards and forwards to it with their cloven hoofs . Let us not , however , be getting on too fast - Milton himself taught school ! There is something not altogether dissimilar between Mr. Bentham's appearance , and the portraits ...
... pass backwards and forwards to it with their cloven hoofs . Let us not , however , be getting on too fast - Milton himself taught school ! There is something not altogether dissimilar between Mr. Bentham's appearance , and the portraits ...
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... pass for mere irony . What the proportion between the good and the evil will really be found in any of the supposed cases , may be a question to the understanding ; but to the imagination and the heart , that is , to the natural ...
... pass for mere irony . What the proportion between the good and the evil will really be found in any of the supposed cases , may be a question to the understanding ; but to the imagination and the heart , that is , to the natural ...
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... pass the Arctic Circle and Frozen Regions , where the understanding is no longer warmed by the affections , nor fanned by the breeze of fancy ! This is the effect of all bold , original , and powerful think- ing , that it either ...
... pass the Arctic Circle and Frozen Regions , where the understanding is no longer warmed by the affections , nor fanned by the breeze of fancy ! This is the effect of all bold , original , and powerful think- ing , that it either ...
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... pass through the mind of man , but its sound has at some time or other passed over his head with rustling pinions . On whatever question or au- thor you speak , he is prepared to take up the theme with advantage from Peter Abelard down ...
... pass through the mind of man , but its sound has at some time or other passed over his head with rustling pinions . On whatever question or au- thor you speak , he is prepared to take up the theme with advantage from Peter Abelard down ...
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... vast Might stamp me mortal ! A triumphant shout Black horror scream'd , and all her goblin rout From the more with'ring scene diminish'd pass'd . Ah ! Bard tremendous in sublimity ! Could I behold MR . COLERIDGE . 69.
... vast Might stamp me mortal ! A triumphant shout Black horror scream'd , and all her goblin rout From the more with'ring scene diminish'd pass'd . Ah ! Bard tremendous in sublimity ! Could I behold MR . COLERIDGE . 69.
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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...
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 363 - 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!
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 145 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Seite 383 - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.