The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 37
... faculties . They emerge sour , morose persons , intolerable to their families , servants , & c . Another shall have been expanding your heart with generous deeds and sentiments , till it even beats with yearnings of universal sympathy ...
... faculties . They emerge sour , morose persons , intolerable to their families , servants , & c . Another shall have been expanding your heart with generous deeds and sentiments , till it even beats with yearnings of universal sympathy ...
Page 40
... mortal . " And it is to be believed that in both cases the rhetoric missed of its application , for want of a proper under- standing with the faculties of the respective recipients . 66 " Quite an Opera pit , " he said 40 ELLISTONIANA.
... mortal . " And it is to be believed that in both cases the rhetoric missed of its application , for want of a proper under- standing with the faculties of the respective recipients . 66 " Quite an Opera pit , " he said 40 ELLISTONIANA.
Page 73
... faculties . Madness is the disproportionate straining or excess of any one of them . " So strong a wit , " says Cowley , speaking of a poetical friend , did Nature to him frame , As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment ...
... faculties . Madness is the disproportionate straining or excess of any one of them . " So strong a wit , " says Cowley , speaking of a poetical friend , did Nature to him frame , As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment ...
Page 127
... faculties , as to take away our recollection that we were once so - before we can duly appreciate the glorious vanities , and graceful hyperboles , of the passion . The images which lie before our feet ( though by some accounted the ...
... faculties , as to take away our recollection that we were once so - before we can duly appreciate the glorious vanities , and graceful hyperboles , of the passion . The images which lie before our feet ( though by some accounted the ...
Page 198
... faculties , perhaps never very pellucid . On them this discourse is wasted . They would but laugh at a weak brother , who , trying his strength with them , and coming off foiled from the contest , would fain persuade them that such ...
... faculties , perhaps never very pellucid . On them this discourse is wasted . They would but laugh at a weak brother , who , trying his strength with them , and coming off foiled from the contest , would fain persuade them that such ...
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