Inklings: Containing Sketches of Life, Compositions, Essays, Disputations, Poems, EtcH. Oliphant, Printer, 1852 - 402 Seiten |
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... sovereign pleasure . Sometimes they show a refinement worthy of a better cause— " assent with civil leer , And without sneering , teach the rest to sneer . " If they are not beneath contempt , they deserve it INKLINGS . 203.
... sovereign pleasure . Sometimes they show a refinement worthy of a better cause— " assent with civil leer , And without sneering , teach the rest to sneer . " If they are not beneath contempt , they deserve it INKLINGS . 203.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
beauty bestow bipeds birds blest bliss bloom bosom bower breath breeze brow cataract cause cheer cher Cicero clime clouds dark dream earth Egypt fair fancy fear feelings field flowers friends future gentle gentle waves glide green Greenville greet happiness happy nation heart heaven hope hopes and fears human John Vernon Julia Brown kind land life's light linger man's ment mind mingle morning mountain nature nature's neighbors never night numbers onward pain passed passions past peace peepers perhaps philanthropy plain pleasant pleasure present quiet reason rill round sandy desert scene seemed seen shade shore sigh sing sleep slumber smile song soon sorrow spring stars storm stream sublime summer sunshine sweet tell tempest things thou thought tion truth vision wave weary William Johnson winds wing wish Xerxes young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 34 - 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 201 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 134 - His subjects of discourse are, in themselves, noble and important; but they are subjects trite and familiar. They have, for ages, employed so many speakers, and so many pens; the public ear is so much accustomed to them, that it requires more than an ordinary power of genius to fix attention. Nothing within the reach of art is more difficult than to bestow, on what is common, thfe grace of novelty.
Seite 241 - ... the fifteenth century can hardly have dwelt in more wretched; and that while the demands for labor, the uses of labor, the efficiency of labor, are multiplied and extended on every side by the rush of invention and the growth of luxury around us, yet in this middle of the Nineteenth Century (call it the last year of the first half or the first year of the last half as you please) Labor is a drug in the market — that the temperate, efficient, upright worker often finds the comfortable maintenance...
Seite 134 - ... requires more than an ordinary power of genius to fix attention. Nothing within the reach of art is more difficult, than to bestow, on what is common, the grace of novelty. No sort of composition whatever is such a trial of skill, as where the merit of it lies wholly in the execution ; not in giving any information that is new, not in convincing men of what they did not believe ; but in dressing truths which they knew, and of which they were before convinced, in such colours as may most forcibly...
Seite 74 - Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Seite 34 - Gospel, with full assurance of faith ? I glory in such bigotry. I would not part with it for a thousand worlds. I congratulate the man who is possessed of it : for amidst all the vicissitudes and calamities of the present state, that man enjoys an inexhaustible fund of consolation, of which it is not in the power of fortune to deprive him.
Seite 134 - ... as may most forcibly affect their imagination and heart.* It is to be considered, too, that the subject of the preacher generally confines him to abstract qualities, to virtues and vices; whereas, that of other popular speakers leads them to treat of persons; which is a subject that commonly interests the hearers more, and takes faster hold of the imagination. The preacher's business is solely to make you detest the...
Seite 134 - The object, however, is noble, and worthy, upon many accounts, of being pursued with zeal. It may perhaps occur to some, that preaching is no proper subject of the art of eloquence. This, it may be said, belongs only to human studies and inventions ; but the truths of religion, with the greater simplicity, and the less mixture of art they are set forth, are likely to prove the more successful.
Seite 35 - You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wave their high tops, and to make no noise When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven.' And again:— ' But when from under this terrestrial bank He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.