Hours in a LibrarySmith, Elder & Company, 1874 - 392 Seiten |
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... fancy De Foe chuckling as he con- cocted the refinements of this most marvellous narrative . The whole artifice is , indeed , of a simple kind . Lord Sunderland , according to Macaulay , once ingeniously de- fended himself against a ...
... fancy De Foe chuckling as he con- cocted the refinements of this most marvellous narrative . The whole artifice is , indeed , of a simple kind . Lord Sunderland , according to Macaulay , once ingeniously de- fended himself against a ...
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... fancy in , ' and ending- Tell them that placed him here , They're scandals to the times , Are at a loss to find his guilt , And can't commit his crimes ---- may stand for specimens of his best manner . More ' DE FOE'S novels . 29.
... fancy in , ' and ending- Tell them that placed him here , They're scandals to the times , Are at a loss to find his guilt , And can't commit his crimes ---- may stand for specimens of his best manner . More ' DE FOE'S novels . 29.
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... fancy that he would scarcely take De Foe's poetry as an im- provement in dignity upon Milton's . We may , perhaps , guess at its merits from this fragment of a speech in prose , addressed to Adam by Eve : ' What ails the sot ? ' says ...
... fancy that he would scarcely take De Foe's poetry as an im- provement in dignity upon Milton's . We may , perhaps , guess at its merits from this fragment of a speech in prose , addressed to Adam by Eve : ' What ails the sot ? ' says ...
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... fancy , which no longer nourished itself upon a genuine faith in a more lofty order of spiritual beings . It is superstition become gross and vulgar before it disappears for ever . Romance and poetry have pretty well departed from these ...
... fancy , which no longer nourished itself upon a genuine faith in a more lofty order of spiritual beings . It is superstition become gross and vulgar before it disappears for ever . Romance and poetry have pretty well departed from these ...
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... fancy that there were giants in those days . When De Foe wrote his novels the battles of the great Civil War and the calamities of the Plague were passing through this phase ; and to them we owe two of his most interesting books , the ...
... fancy that there were giants in those days . When De Foe wrote his novels the battles of the great Civil War and the calamities of the Plague were passing through this phase ; and to them we owe two of his most interesting books , the ...
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Seite 48 - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress : My God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence.
Seite 199 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 168 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Seite 183 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains: When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's, use and end; Why doing, suffering, checked, impelled; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Seite 186 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Seite 287 - The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
Seite 199 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Seite 175 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 146 - And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Seite 153 - Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.