Biographical and Critical MiscellaniesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 729 páginas |
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... gave evidence of his studious pro- pensities , being frequently noticed by his father , on his return from school , poring over some heavy tome , nothing daunted by the formidable words it contained , or mounted on a table , and busily ...
... gave evidence of his studious pro- pensities , being frequently noticed by his father , on his return from school , poring over some heavy tome , nothing daunted by the formidable words it contained , or mounted on a table , and busily ...
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... gave him the contemptuous epithet of " boy . " What does he mean , " said the young philosopher , after the guest's departure , " by calling me boy ? Does he not know that it is neither size nor age , but sense , that makes the man ? I ...
... gave him the contemptuous epithet of " boy . " What does he mean , " said the young philosopher , after the guest's departure , " by calling me boy ? Does he not know that it is neither size nor age , but sense , that makes the man ? I ...
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William Hickling Prescott. suggested ; to inquire what it was that gave them this place , structure , and form , were more agreeable employments than ploughing and threshing . " " My frame was delicate and feeble . Exposure ... gave them ...
William Hickling Prescott. suggested ; to inquire what it was that gave them this place , structure , and form , were more agreeable employments than ploughing and threshing . " " My frame was delicate and feeble . Exposure ... gave them ...
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... gave you rea- son to imagine that I was not so happy as a gay in- difference with regard to the present , stubborn for- getfulness with respect to the uneasy past , and ex- cursions into lightsome futurity could make me ; for what end ...
... gave you rea- son to imagine that I was not so happy as a gay in- difference with regard to the present , stubborn for- getfulness with respect to the uneasy past , and ex- cursions into lightsome futurity could make me ; for what end ...
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... gave as the reason for his former ver- sion , that he could form no positive conception of a red colour ; but that , as fire was said to be red , he connected the idea of heat with this colour , and had therefore interpreted the wrath ...
... gave as the reason for his former ver- sion , that he could form no positive conception of a red colour ; but that , as fire was said to be red , he connected the idea of heat with this colour , and had therefore interpreted the wrath ...
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Página 270 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 61 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 278 - Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author.
Página 198 - At length he said, with perfect cheerfulness, ' Well, well, James, so be it — but you know we must not droop, for we can't afford to give over. Since one line has failed, we must just stick to something else:' — and so he dismissed me, and resumed his novel.
Página 240 - People may say this and that of the pleasure of fame, or of profit, as a motive of writing ; I think the only pleasure is in the actual exertion and research, and I would no more write upon any other terms than I would hunt merely to dine upon hare-soup. At the same time, if credit and profit came unlocked for I would no more quarrel with them than with the soup.
Página 428 - Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Man shall descry another hemisphere. Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.
Página 17 - This was too much. I broke from her embrace, and retired to a corner of the room. In this pause, courage was once more infused into me. I resolved to execute my duty. She followed me, and renewed her passionate entreaty to know the cause of my distress.
Página 324 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 201 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Página 190 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.