The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary PortraitsC. Templeman, 1858 - 396 Seiten |
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... wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr Tooke's faculties might appear to have ripened and acquired a finer flavour with age . In a former period of his life he was hardly the man he was latterly ; or else he had greater ...
... wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr Tooke's faculties might appear to have ripened and acquired a finer flavour with age . In a former period of his life he was hardly the man he was latterly ; or else he had greater ...
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... wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold inti- mate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space , we must draw the circle of our ...
... wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold inti- mate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space , we must draw the circle of our ...
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... wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of the Rebellion , or Burnet's History of his own Times , and you ...
... wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of the Rebellion , or Burnet's History of his own Times , and you ...
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... wish - in a word , his egotism is full of individuality , and has room for very little vanity in it . We feel delighted , rub our hands , and draw our chair to the fire , when we come to a passage of this sort : we know it will be ...
... wish - in a word , his egotism is full of individuality , and has room for very little vanity in it . We feel delighted , rub our hands , and draw our chair to the fire , when we come to a passage of this sort : we know it will be ...
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... wishes of the rest of the world . To sail with the stream , to agree with the company is not his humour . If he could bring about a Reform in Parlia- ment , the odds are that he would instantly fall foul of and try to mar his own handy ...
... wishes of the rest of the world . To sail with the stream , to agree with the company is not his humour . If he could bring about a Reform in Parlia- ment , the odds are that he would instantly fall foul of and try to mar his own handy ...
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Seite 125 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Seite 266 - 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 363 - Far flashed the red artillery. But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn ; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy.
Seite 124 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: — Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 149 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 363 - 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 124 - No uttered syllable, or, woe betide ! 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.
Seite 294 - 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 338 - 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 124 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.