The Metropolitan, Volume 30James Cochrane, 1841 - English literature |
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... admiring , and almost , it may be , of loving you as much as I do , who yet would fail in appreciating the delicate , high - toned liberality of spirit which I so perfectly well know how to value , and which , believe me , I shall ever ...
... admiring , and almost , it may be , of loving you as much as I do , who yet would fail in appreciating the delicate , high - toned liberality of spirit which I so perfectly well know how to value , and which , believe me , I shall ever ...
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... admiration their grief - hallowed characters , and make them a model for our own . Mrs. L had been beautiful , and was the sole heiress to the old place and estate where she now dwells . Like most beauties and in- heritors of three ...
... admiration their grief - hallowed characters , and make them a model for our own . Mrs. L had been beautiful , and was the sole heiress to the old place and estate where she now dwells . Like most beauties and in- heritors of three ...
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... admiration for the beautifnl glittering thing , which he said , on some days , when the sun was shining upon it , looked like a number of soft blue eyes beckoning to him . Often had he implored his mother to take him near to that lovely ...
... admiration for the beautifnl glittering thing , which he said , on some days , when the sun was shining upon it , looked like a number of soft blue eyes beckoning to him . Often had he implored his mother to take him near to that lovely ...
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... admiration hourly increased for them both , I began to feel their society was absolutely essential to my comfort and happiness , and am convinced , from what I saw of her disposition , that had I been selfish enough to have demanded ...
... admiration hourly increased for them both , I began to feel their society was absolutely essential to my comfort and happiness , and am convinced , from what I saw of her disposition , that had I been selfish enough to have demanded ...
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... admiration . " What , " said he , " is our crime ? that we should be affronted by a general proscription - by an indiscriminate expulsion in our advanced life from that institution which our youth created , preserved , and adorned- that ...
... admiration . " What , " said he , " is our crime ? that we should be affronted by a general proscription - by an indiscriminate expulsion in our advanced life from that institution which our youth created , preserved , and adorned- that ...
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Page 116 - Yes, this Shakspeare is ours; we produced him, we speak and think by him ; we are of one blood and kind with him.
Page 138 - His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 104 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Page 372 - I make the assertion deliberately — I repeat it, and I call on any man who hears me, to take down my words...
Page 372 - You are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators, and not to transfer them. And if you do so your act 'is a dissolution of the government. You resolve society into its original elements, and no man in the land is bound to obey you.
Page 116 - Yes, truly, it is a great thing for a Nation that it get an articulate voice ; that it produce a man who will speak forth melodiously what the heart of it means ! Italy, for example, poor Italy lies dismembered, scattered asunder, not appearing in any protocol or treaty as a unity at all...
Page 116 - Here, I say, is an English King, whom no time or chance, Parliament or combination of Parliaments can dethrone ! This King...
Page 372 - ... that is not this case. If government considers this a season peculiarly fitted for experiments on the constitution, they may call on the people. I ask you, Are you ready to do so ? Are you ready to abide the event of such an appeal ? What is it you must in that event submit to the people ? Not this particular project, for if you dissolve the present form of government, they become free to choose any...
Page 115 - Shakespeare? Really it were a grave question. Official persons would answer doubtless in official language; but we, for our part too, should not we be forced to answer: Indian Empire, or no Indian Empire, we cannot do without Shakespeare!
Page 115 - Nature: whatsoever is truly great in him springs-up from the inarticulate deeps. Well: this is our poor Warwickshire Peasant, who rose to be Manager of a Playhouse, so that he could live without begging; whom the Earl of Southampton cast some kind glances on; whom Sir Thomas Lucy, many thanks to him, was for sending to the Treadmill!