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... present Volume requires no explanation : its matter will , I trust , be found conformable to its title . Of that matter it is scarcely necessary to repeat the defence which I have given in my former pub- lications of a similar nature ...
... present Volume requires no explanation : its matter will , I trust , be found conformable to its title . Of that matter it is scarcely necessary to repeat the defence which I have given in my former pub- lications of a similar nature ...
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... present epoch . Nor in those more simple days was Literature fallen into that system of intrigue , mechanism , and trick , by which it is now regularly carried on : by the aid of which the most contemptible witlings are lifted into ...
... present epoch . Nor in those more simple days was Literature fallen into that system of intrigue , mechanism , and trick , by which it is now regularly carried on : by the aid of which the most contemptible witlings are lifted into ...
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... present day success does not depend on writing up to the scale of qualified and genuine judges : but on writing down to the standard of the multitude ; and of the charlatan critics , who get their bread by pandering to their ap- petites ...
... present day success does not depend on writing up to the scale of qualified and genuine judges : but on writing down to the standard of the multitude ; and of the charlatan critics , who get their bread by pandering to their ap- petites ...
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... present , mixed up with so many ( if any ) low , stupid , flagi- tious and Satanic materials , as lead only to re- bellion , and anarchy ; as poison the minds of the uneducated , who have not been taught to distinguish truth from ...
... present , mixed up with so many ( if any ) low , stupid , flagi- tious and Satanic materials , as lead only to re- bellion , and anarchy ; as poison the minds of the uneducated , who have not been taught to distinguish truth from ...
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... present Century , would it be any loss ? If nine tenths of modern criticism were sunk beneath the sea , would it not be a good ? If almost all the politics , which have been written since the death of Burke , were annihilated , would ...
... present Century , would it be any loss ? If nine tenths of modern criticism were sunk beneath the sea , would it not be a good ? If almost all the politics , which have been written since the death of Burke , were annihilated , would ...
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Page 46 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 45 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 47 - It is, it is! Hie hence, be gone, away! It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Page 45 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Page 45 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear...
Page viii - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 78 - Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois Royne de Navarre. Faict premièrement en Disticques Latins par les trois Sœurs Princesses en Angleterre. Depuis traduictz en Grec, Italien, et François par plusieurs des excellente Poètes de la France.
Page 448 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
Page 335 - Nouvelle edit., revue sur plusieurs manuscrits du tems, enrichie de notes et de figures, avec un recueil de traités, lettres, contrats et instructions, utiles pour l'histoire, et nécessaires pour l'étude du droit public et du droit des gens. Par [THÉODORE, DENYS et JEAN] GODEFROY.