Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review ...Longman, 1850 |
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19. oldal
... humanity . Both conspired to render him habitually light - hearted . With such a tempera- ment , thus added to unfeigned piety and unfeigned be- nevolence ; with a heart open to all innocent pleasures , and purged from the leaven of ...
... humanity . Both conspired to render him habitually light - hearted . With such a tempera- ment , thus added to unfeigned piety and unfeigned be- nevolence ; with a heart open to all innocent pleasures , and purged from the leaven of ...
24. oldal
... human levity , in his mode of dealing with sacred or serious subjects . His was the natural expression of much hilarity conjoined with much wit . He would have been mirthful , whether he had had much wit or not ; having also much wit ...
... human levity , in his mode of dealing with sacred or serious subjects . His was the natural expression of much hilarity conjoined with much wit . He would have been mirthful , whether he had had much wit or not ; having also much wit ...
29. oldal
... , in depicting varieties of human character in all which cases no continuous rea- soning , no warmth of passion , is expected or required ; - the fancy may well be indulged in her most sportive LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER . 29.
... , in depicting varieties of human character in all which cases no continuous rea- soning , no warmth of passion , is expected or required ; - the fancy may well be indulged in her most sportive LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER . 29.
47. oldal
... human feeling and passion . Above all , his way of telling a story , for its eager liveliness , and the perpetual running com- mentary of the narrator , happily blended with the narration , is perhaps unequalled . ' * Since the ...
... human feeling and passion . Above all , his way of telling a story , for its eager liveliness , and the perpetual running com- mentary of the narrator , happily blended with the narration , is perhaps unequalled . ' * Since the ...
72. oldal
... human nature credit for the sincere adoption of the most opposite opinions . Still there are limits to this exercise of charity ; there may be such a concurrence of suspicious symptoms , that our charity can be exercised only at the ...
... human nature credit for the sincere adoption of the most opposite opinions . Still there are limits to this exercise of charity ; there may be such a concurrence of suspicious symptoms , that our charity can be exercised only at the ...
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14. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
233. oldal - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
42. oldal - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
95. oldal - Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead ; Or what by th
89. oldal - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
7. oldal - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
289. oldal - Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds had shown them, made their hands shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steadily through the glass; yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place.
488. oldal - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
431. oldal - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
18. oldal - Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there men naturally dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss.