Illustrations of Human Life, 1. kötetH. Colburn, 1837 |
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viii. oldal
... Ward. publication , even the form of romance is laid aside . With this meagre but true account of my work , I send it into the world . Felix faustaque sit ! R. P. W. ATTICUS , OR THE RETIRED STATESMAN . VOL . I. vii PREFACE .
... Ward. publication , even the form of romance is laid aside . With this meagre but true account of my work , I send it into the world . Felix faustaque sit ! R. P. W. ATTICUS , OR THE RETIRED STATESMAN . VOL . I. vii PREFACE .
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Robert Plumer Ward. ATTICUS , OR THE RETIRED STATESMAN . VOL . I. B Y ΤΟ WILLIAM EARL OF LONSDALE , KNIGHT OF THE GARTER.
Robert Plumer Ward. ATTICUS , OR THE RETIRED STATESMAN . VOL . I. B Y ΤΟ WILLIAM EARL OF LONSDALE , KNIGHT OF THE GARTER.
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... retirement , and even his professed resolution to live for himself after hav- ing so long lived for the State , are not thought any bar to the attempt to bring him back to business . It was believed he would not be proof against the ...
... retirement , and even his professed resolution to live for himself after hav- ing so long lived for the State , are not thought any bar to the attempt to bring him back to business . It was believed he would not be proof against the ...
7. oldal
... retiring for ever , and would never repent it . We , on our side , said that the experiment , though of two years standing , had not been suffi- ciently tried ; that , old as he was in the world , he was not sufficiently so to feel ...
... retiring for ever , and would never repent it . We , on our side , said that the experiment , though of two years standing , had not been suffi- ciently tried ; that , old as he was in the world , he was not sufficiently so to feel ...
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... retirement , and shuts out the world , ' As all too wanton and too full of gauds , To give it audience . ' " ' " Yet so beautiful a prospect as you might have by cutting down those trees ! " 66 " Had I no prospects elsewhere , " he ...
... retirement , and shuts out the world , ' As all too wanton and too full of gauds , To give it audience . ' " ' " Yet so beautiful a prospect as you might have by cutting down those trees ! " 66 " Had I no prospects elsewhere , " he ...
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41. oldal - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
74. oldal - To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
18. oldal - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
334. oldal - They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep ; their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
316. oldal - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
248. oldal - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
150. oldal - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
120. oldal - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
59. oldal - mere oblivion," a dead letter: for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it. Fear is poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry, hatred is poetry, contempt, jealousy, remorse, admiration, wonder, pity, despair, or madness, are all poetry. Poetry is that fine particle within us, that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being: without it "man's life is poor as beast's.
84. oldal - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.