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... popularity , but bear in mind that as the million , countless of millions , grains of sand , consist actually of grain upon grain , so does voice upon voice constitute that great body — the Senate . CHAPTER II . POLITICAL NOVELISTS ...
... popularity , but bear in mind that as the million , countless of millions , grains of sand , consist actually of grain upon grain , so does voice upon voice constitute that great body — the Senate . CHAPTER II . POLITICAL NOVELISTS ...
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... popular novelists aim their ridicule at it , thoughtless pens deride that which wisdom has created . Nay , the very politician who has sat with his brother members satisfies his leisure ambition and the craving of angry duns by a work ...
... popular novelists aim their ridicule at it , thoughtless pens deride that which wisdom has created . Nay , the very politician who has sat with his brother members satisfies his leisure ambition and the craving of angry duns by a work ...
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... popularity - the fame of brilliant author- ship . Remember the thrilling feeling which crept over you when ye stood , for the first time , within parliamentary walls . In your most enthusiastic moments , forget not that ye represent the ...
... popularity - the fame of brilliant author- ship . Remember the thrilling feeling which crept over you when ye stood , for the first time , within parliamentary walls . In your most enthusiastic moments , forget not that ye represent the ...
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... popular , in the vulgar acceptance of the word , he too often sacrifices his own feelings of duty , preferring applause , though it be unmerited , to remaining unknown . We must remember that , notwithstanding the march of intellect is ...
... popular , in the vulgar acceptance of the word , he too often sacrifices his own feelings of duty , preferring applause , though it be unmerited , to remaining unknown . We must remember that , notwithstanding the march of intellect is ...
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... popular comedy , ye must " stoop to conquer " Think not that the young lordlings will be more conducive to England's welfare than the poor , but industrious , youths who rank in the University upon the Nation's list . If ye receive the ...
... popular comedy , ye must " stoop to conquer " Think not that the young lordlings will be more conducive to England's welfare than the poor , but industrious , youths who rank in the University upon the Nation's list . If ye receive the ...
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Page 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.