Essays and Reviews, Volumen 1D. Appleton, 1848 - 360 páginas |
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... political and poetic justice . The Edin- burgh reviewers were found not to be of the old school of critics . They were not contented with the humble task of chronicling the appearance of books , and meekly condensing their weak contents ...
... political and poetic justice . The Edin- burgh reviewers were found not to be of the old school of critics . They were not contented with the humble task of chronicling the appearance of books , and meekly condensing their weak contents ...
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... political economy , all suffer a transformation into " something rich and strange . " Prosaists are made to love poetry , tory politicians to sympa- thize with Hampden and Milton , and novel - readers to obtain some idea of Bacon and ...
... political economy , all suffer a transformation into " something rich and strange . " Prosaists are made to love poetry , tory politicians to sympa- thize with Hampden and Milton , and novel - readers to obtain some idea of Bacon and ...
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... political science ; browbeat political economists on their own vantage - ground ; be victo- rious in matters of pure reason in an argument with reason- ing machines ; follow historians , step by step , in their most minute researches ...
... political science ; browbeat political economists on their own vantage - ground ; be victo- rious in matters of pure reason in an argument with reason- ing machines ; follow historians , step by step , in their most minute researches ...
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... Political hostility , and the bitterness of feeling it naturally engenders , may be supposed to have edged much of the cutting sarcasm , which is used so pitiless- ly in the wholesale condemnation of John Wilson Croker's edition of ...
... Political hostility , and the bitterness of feeling it naturally engenders , may be supposed to have edged much of the cutting sarcasm , which is used so pitiless- ly in the wholesale condemnation of John Wilson Croker's edition of ...
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... politics . There is one quality of Macaulay's nature , and that , perhaps , the best , which is deserving of lavish eulogium , — his intense and earnest love of liberty , and his honest and hearty hatred of intellectual and political ...
... politics . There is one quality of Macaulay's nature , and that , perhaps , the best , which is deserving of lavish eulogium , — his intense and earnest love of liberty , and his honest and hearty hatred of intellectual and political ...
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Página 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Página 249 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Página 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Página 240 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Página 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Página 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Página 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.