The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 oldal |
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5. oldal
... his manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY -or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( JEREMY BENTHAM . 5.
... his manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY -or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( JEREMY BENTHAM . 5.
19. oldal
... breath , loses its force ; he is no longer sustained by the good opinion of others , and he drops out of his place in society , a useless clog ! Mr. Bentham takes a culprit , and puts him into what he calls a Panopticon , that is , a ...
... breath , loses its force ; he is no longer sustained by the good opinion of others , and he drops out of his place in society , a useless clog ! Mr. Bentham takes a culprit , and puts him into what he calls a Panopticon , that is , a ...
29. oldal
... of a sort of posthumous fame . His bark , after being tossed in the revolu- tionary tempest , now raised to heaven by all the fury of popular breath , now almost dashed in pieces , and buried in the quicksands of ignorance , or scorch- ed.
... of a sort of posthumous fame . His bark , after being tossed in the revolu- tionary tempest , now raised to heaven by all the fury of popular breath , now almost dashed in pieces , and buried in the quicksands of ignorance , or scorch- ed.
33. oldal
... breath were to change the world , and might almost stop the stars in their courses ? Oh ! and is all forgot ? Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by ...
... breath were to change the world , and might almost stop the stars in their courses ? Oh ! and is all forgot ? Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by ...
42. oldal
... breath of life , and in the participation and improvement of which alone he is raised above the brute creation and his own physical nature ! " - The overstrained and ridiculous preten- sions of monks and ascetics were never thought to ...
... breath of life , and in the participation and improvement of which alone he is raised above the brute creation and his own physical nature ! " - The overstrained and ridiculous preten- sions of monks and ascetics were never thought to ...
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143. oldal - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
362. oldal - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
58. oldal - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
398. oldal - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
262. oldal - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
363. oldal - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
382. oldal - Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
191. oldal - 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.
145. oldal - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
383. oldal - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.