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... position which none other can approach . They and the manners they describe constitute a world of their own a scheme of human life and character complete in all its parts . We are introduced to man in every relation of which he is ...
... position which none other can approach . They and the manners they describe constitute a world of their own a scheme of human life and character complete in all its parts . We are introduced to man in every relation of which he is ...
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... position he merited . Of the hundred times that he competed for the prize , he was but eight times crowned . Beaten when living by his unworthy rivals , who owed their success to intrigue rather than merit , posterity has avenged his ...
... position he merited . Of the hundred times that he competed for the prize , he was but eight times crowned . Beaten when living by his unworthy rivals , who owed their success to intrigue rather than merit , posterity has avenged his ...
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... position he might have been a soldier and a statesman ; but political honours were not in accordance with his desires ; he was a student , a poet , a philosopher . His destiny was to live a " hidden life , " and to write a book - to.
... position he might have been a soldier and a statesman ; but political honours were not in accordance with his desires ; he was a student , a poet , a philosopher . His destiny was to live a " hidden life , " and to write a book - to.
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... position , character , and qualities . No modern poet equals these two in knowledge of men and motives . On the other hand , he is compared with Dante ; and here is found a contrast , yet an analogy . Dante is the artistic ...
... position , character , and qualities . No modern poet equals these two in knowledge of men and motives . On the other hand , he is compared with Dante ; and here is found a contrast , yet an analogy . Dante is the artistic ...
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... position occupied by Praxiteles in the history of ancient art can be defined without much difficulty . He stands with Scopas , as Mr. Philip Smith observes , at the head of the later Attic school , so called in contra- distinction to ...
... position occupied by Praxiteles in the history of ancient art can be defined without much difficulty . He stands with Scopas , as Mr. Philip Smith observes , at the head of the later Attic school , so called in contra- distinction to ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 433 - Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style.
Seite 432 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 433 - On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect; in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did Nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance.
Seite 438 - with a feeling that I should never rise in my profession. My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount, and the little interest I possessed. I could discover no means of reaching the object of my ambition. After a long and gloomy reverie, in which I almost wished myself overboard, a sudden glow of patriotism was kindled within me, and presented my king and country as my patron. Well, then," I exclaimed, " I will be a hero ! and, confiding in Providence, I will brave every...
Seite 418 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 175 - by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I ; I can do no other: God assist me!
Seite 129 - He who sows the ground with care and diligence, acquires a greater stock of religious merit, than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
Seite 3 - Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.
Seite 304 - History of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and his, Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen...
Seite 432 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whether obstacles opposed.