The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 oldal |
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13. oldal
... wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space - we must draw the circle of our af ...
... wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our feelings evaporate in so large a space - we must draw the circle of our af ...
52. oldal
... wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of the Rebellion , or Burnet's History of his own Time ; and you ...
... wishes to appear a foil to himself . His best moments are with an intimate acquaintance or two , when he gossips in a fine vein about old authors , Clarendon's History of the Rebellion , or Burnet's History of his own Time ; and you ...
69. oldal
... wish'd to die , If through the shudd'ring midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the tower time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's cry- That in no after - moment aught less vast Might stamp me mortal ! A triumphant ...
... wish'd to die , If through the shudd'ring midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the tower time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's cry- That in no after - moment aught less vast Might stamp me mortal ! A triumphant ...
112. oldal
... wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr. Tooke's faculties might appear to have ripened and acquired a finer flavour with age . In a former period of his life he was hardly the man he was latterly ; or else he had ...
... wish to know the materials of which it is composed . Mr. Tooke's faculties might appear to have ripened and acquired a finer flavour with age . In a former period of his life he was hardly the man he was latterly ; or else he had ...
152. oldal
... wishes to shine by contrast - even nature only serves as a foil to set off his style . He therefore takes the thoughts of others ( whether contemporaries or not ) out of their mouths , and is content to make them his own , to set his ...
... wishes to shine by contrast - even nature only serves as a foil to set off his style . He therefore takes the thoughts of others ( whether contemporaries or not ) out of their mouths , and is content to make them his own , to set his ...
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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.