Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Volume 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... appear , that no good book can be written in any other way ; that the only literature of any value is that which grows indirectly out of the real action of society , intended directly to effect some other purpose ; and that when a man ...
... appear , that no good book can be written in any other way ; that the only literature of any value is that which grows indirectly out of the real action of society , intended directly to effect some other purpose ; and that when a man ...
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... appears , a good - natured person , seems to have practiced a singular frankness in his epistolary style , at least if we may judge from a specimen which is preserved in the letters of his daughter . On the elevation of Mr. de Schomberg ...
... appears , a good - natured person , seems to have practiced a singular frankness in his epistolary style , at least if we may judge from a specimen which is preserved in the letters of his daughter . On the elevation of Mr. de Schomberg ...
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... appears , had a rather wide mouth : - - ' Que Deodatus * est heureux De baiser ce bec amoureux Que d'une oreille à l'autre va Halleluia ! ' * Deodatus , ( Dieu - donné , ) was one of the names of Louis XIV . ' What a fortunate man is ...
... appears , had a rather wide mouth : - - ' Que Deodatus * est heureux De baiser ce bec amoureux Que d'une oreille à l'autre va Halleluia ! ' * Deodatus , ( Dieu - donné , ) was one of the names of Louis XIV . ' What a fortunate man is ...
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... appears , from time to time , through the whole course of the letters , affecting much philosophy and resignation , but always engaged in some new effort to recover the King's favor . It is not very easy , however , for a singed moth to ...
... appears , from time to time , through the whole course of the letters , affecting much philosophy and resignation , but always engaged in some new effort to recover the King's favor . It is not very easy , however , for a singed moth to ...
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... appears . Like his contemporary and pensioner , Charles II . , he possessed the apropos in discourse , and a remarkable happiness in repartee . Thus , when he was taking leave of the unfortunate James II . , at his departure for Ireland ...
... appears . Like his contemporary and pensioner , Charles II . , he possessed the apropos in discourse , and a remarkable happiness in repartee . Thus , when he was taking leave of the unfortunate James II . , at his departure for Ireland ...
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Page 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Page 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Page 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...