Characteristics: Sketches and EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 362 Seiten |
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... sometimes even for days after- ward upon the words , till at length , spontaneously as it seemed , " the fire would kindle , " and the association which had escaped my utmost efforts of comprehension before , flashed itself all at once ...
... sometimes even for days after- ward upon the words , till at length , spontaneously as it seemed , " the fire would kindle , " and the association which had escaped my utmost efforts of comprehension before , flashed itself all at once ...
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... sometimes harsh , some- times careless , often quaint , almost always , I think , drawn from the fresh delicious fountains of our elder eloquence . I have no doubt that the diction of much that I have re- ported is different from ...
... sometimes harsh , some- times careless , often quaint , almost always , I think , drawn from the fresh delicious fountains of our elder eloquence . I have no doubt that the diction of much that I have re- ported is different from ...
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... sometimes reaching beyond his own they un- derstood " a beauty in the words , if not the words ; " and a wisdom and piety in the illustrations , even when unable to connect them with the idea which he desired to illus- trate . If an ...
... sometimes reaching beyond his own they un- derstood " a beauty in the words , if not the words ; " and a wisdom and piety in the illustrations , even when unable to connect them with the idea which he desired to illus- trate . If an ...
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... sometimes when environed by the noise and gigantic movements of a great mill ... The eloquent Coleridge sometimes retires . into a sublime mysticism of thought ; he robes himself in moonlight , and moves among images of which we can ...
... sometimes when environed by the noise and gigantic movements of a great mill ... The eloquent Coleridge sometimes retires . into a sublime mysticism of thought ; he robes himself in moonlight , and moves among images of which we can ...
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... sometimes went to the theatre to see others act , but it was remarked that she always paid the greatest attention to the performance ; that she did not , like some others , sit remarkably forward , and , so to speak , throw her whole ...
... sometimes went to the theatre to see others act , but it was remarked that she always paid the greatest attention to the performance ; that she did not , like some others , sit remarkably forward , and , so to speak , throw her whole ...
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Seite 271 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Seite 226 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Seite 358 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Seite 136 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Seite 115 - For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print, or do it in better verses. It did well enough five years ago when I came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the time you wrote the lines, to feed upon such epithets; but, besides that, the meaning of gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited, the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings.
Seite 52 - Rasselas has grown somewhat dim. But though the celebrity of the writings may have declined, the celebrity of the writer, strange to say, is as great as ever. Boswell's book has done for him more than the best of his own books could do. The memory of other authors is kept alive by their works. But the memory of Johnson keeps many of his works alive.
Seite 7 - COLERIDGE sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Seite 141 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Seite 145 - O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace, Wha for thy sake wad gladly die ? Or canst thou break that heart of his, Whase only faut is loving thee ? If love for love thou wilt na gie, At least be pity to me shown ! A thought ungentle canna be The thought o
Seite 7 - A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days, had saved his crown of spiritual manhood; escaping from the black materialisms, and revolutionary deluges, with "God, Freedom, Immortality