History of English Literature, 1. kötetChatto & Windus, 1871 |
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. oldal
... follow the change in tastes , and the persistency in instincts ; there we see the national character acted upon by circumstances , and moulded in directions determined partly by its own nature and partly by tradition ; but through all ...
... follow the change in tastes , and the persistency in instincts ; there we see the national character acted upon by circumstances , and moulded in directions determined partly by its own nature and partly by tradition ; but through all ...
5. oldal
... follow him from his farm and team , to the general's tent and to the Protector's throne , in his transmutation and develop- ment , in his pricks of conscience and his political conclusions , until the machinery of his mind and actions ...
... follow him from his farm and team , to the general's tent and to the Protector's throne , in his transmutation and develop- ment , in his pricks of conscience and his political conclusions , until the machinery of his mind and actions ...
11. oldal
... follow but obscurely the Aryan peoples from their common fatherland to their final countries , we can yet assert that the profound differences which are manifest between the German races on the one side , and the Greek and Latin on the ...
... follow but obscurely the Aryan peoples from their common fatherland to their final countries , we can yet assert that the profound differences which are manifest between the German races on the one side , and the Greek and Latin on the ...
12. oldal
... follows . Beside the permanent impulse and the given surroundings , there is the ac- quired momentum . When the national character and surrounding circumstances operate , it is not upon a tabula rasa , but on a ground on which marks are ...
... follows . Beside the permanent impulse and the given surroundings , there is the ac- quired momentum . When the national character and surrounding circumstances operate , it is not upon a tabula rasa , but on a ground on which marks are ...
13. oldal
... follows has always the first for its condition , and grows from its death . And if now you consider no longer a brief epoch , as our own time , but one of those wide intervals which embrace one or more centuries , like the middle ages ...
... follows has always the first for its condition , and grows from its death . And if now you consider no longer a brief epoch , as our own time , but one of those wide intervals which embrace one or more centuries , like the middle ages ...
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339. oldal - What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
451. oldal - Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
321. oldal - She is the fairies' midwife ;" and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies" Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
335. oldal - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.
436. oldal - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
218. oldal - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
438. oldal - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
450. oldal - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
302. oldal - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
451. oldal - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...