The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 oldal |
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... sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the mo- ment . Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his speculations ...
... sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the mo- ment . Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his speculations ...
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... sounds , " That this house do now adjourn , " retire , after voting a royal crusade or a loan of millions , to lie on down , and feed on plate in spacious palaces , know of what passes in the hearts of wretches in garrets and night ...
... sounds , " That this house do now adjourn , " retire , after voting a royal crusade or a loan of millions , to lie on down , and feed on plate in spacious palaces , know of what passes in the hearts of wretches in garrets and night ...
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... a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes , that came rushing on like the sound of thunder ? Or his account of the JEREMY BENTHAM . 21.
... a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes , that came rushing on like the sound of thunder ? Or his account of the JEREMY BENTHAM . 21.
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William Hazlitt. the sound of thunder ? Or his account of the huge spiders that prey on blue - bottles and gilded flies in green pathless forests ; or of the great Pacific Ocean , that the natives look upon as the gulf that parts time ...
William Hazlitt. the sound of thunder ? Or his account of the huge spiders that prey on blue - bottles and gilded flies in green pathless forests ; or of the great Pacific Ocean , that the natives look upon as the gulf that parts time ...
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... sound when it arose from high thought and warm feeling , than afterwards , when it was warped and debased by the example , the vices , and follies of the world ? - 66 by that sin The fault , then , of Mr. Godwin's philosophy , in one ...
... sound when it arose from high thought and warm feeling , than afterwards , when it was warped and debased by the example , the vices , and follies of the world ? - 66 by that sin The fault , then , of Mr. Godwin's philosophy , in one ...
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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.