Characters and Criticisms, Band 1I.Y. Westervelt, 1857 |
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... least half a dozen able - bodied men to his majesty's service.The female world are likewise indispensably necessary in the best cause , to managethe controversial part of them , in which no man of tolerable breeding is ever able to ...
... least half a dozen able - bodied men to his majesty's service.The female world are likewise indispensably necessary in the best cause , to managethe controversial part of them , in which no man of tolerable breeding is ever able to ...
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... least doubt but those I have already suggested will be sufficient to persuade my fair readers to be zealous in the Protestant cause . " We read no such political writing at the present day ; elegance of style is considered as quite a ...
... least doubt but those I have already suggested will be sufficient to persuade my fair readers to be zealous in the Protestant cause . " We read no such political writing at the present day ; elegance of style is considered as quite a ...
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... least appropriate to him in his new character . The cool decisions and rigidly impartial statements of the narrator of civil and military occurrences , and of the speculatist on the political aspects of states and nations , diminish the ...
... least appropriate to him in his new character . The cool decisions and rigidly impartial statements of the narrator of civil and military occurrences , and of the speculatist on the political aspects of states and nations , diminish the ...
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... least didactic and hortatory ( to em- ploy a Johnsonian phrase ) . We hate misnomers . A book of devotion , a tract of conversial divinity , a sermon , a moral essay , are all well in their proper place ; but a book professing to be a ...
... least didactic and hortatory ( to em- ploy a Johnsonian phrase ) . We hate misnomers . A book of devotion , a tract of conversial divinity , a sermon , a moral essay , are all well in their proper place ; but a book professing to be a ...
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... least it is our own fault . " In the same way , a philosophic historian will prefer the transcript from contemporary records to any fine - spun dissertations of his own ; and an effective orator will allow a clear and spirited statement ...
... least it is our own fault . " In the same way , a philosophic historian will prefer the transcript from contemporary records to any fine - spun dissertations of his own ; and an effective orator will allow a clear and spirited statement ...
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Seite 54 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and...
Seite 65 - Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself...
Seite 78 - SWEETEST of sweets, I thank you : when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence ; and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assign'd. Now I in you without a body move, Rising and falling with your wings : We both together sweetly live and love, Yet say sometimes, God help poor kings.
Seite 57 - SLEEP, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief...
Seite 78 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Seite 66 - France, tis strange, Hath brought forth no such souls as we had then. Perpetual emptiness! unceasing change! No single volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of books and men!
Seite 60 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Seite 59 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Seite 135 - ... come to thee So much of either may undo thee. I wish thee learning, not for show, Enough for to instruct and know ; Not such as gentlemen require To prate at table or at fire. I wish thee all thy mother's graces, Thy father's fortunes and his places. I wish thee friends, and one at court, Not to build on, but support ; To keep thee not in doing many Oppressions, but from suffering any. I wish thee peace in all thy ways, Nor lazy nor contentious days ; And, when thy soul and body part, As innocent...
Seite 52 - ... most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass; But one worse fault — Ambition — I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, Unseen, unheard —...