Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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... less than respectful to the public , in those who ask its confidence , to make no professions at all , it is certain that a literary experiment can better describe itself by its performances than by its promises . The cha- racter of a ...
... less than respectful to the public , in those who ask its confidence , to make no professions at all , it is certain that a literary experiment can better describe itself by its performances than by its promises . The cha- racter of a ...
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... less on the facts narrated than on the fictions omitted -fictions at which most biographers , we allow , are prone to sip , but which Molière's swallow at a gulp . In like manner , as regards our criticisms , we have no desire to be ...
... less on the facts narrated than on the fictions omitted -fictions at which most biographers , we allow , are prone to sip , but which Molière's swallow at a gulp . In like manner , as regards our criticisms , we have no desire to be ...
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... less than by what it leaves unsaid , it refutes a number of silly misstatements - to use no harsher term - with which later biographers have not scrupled to season their pages . Grimarest's work , for example , the standard authority ...
... less than by what it leaves unsaid , it refutes a number of silly misstatements - to use no harsher term - with which later biographers have not scrupled to season their pages . Grimarest's work , for example , the standard authority ...
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6 space of not less than twelve years , our information is so flimsy and fragmentary that we think it best to avoid the temptation of filling up lacunæ with imaginary hypotheses , by referring the reader once for all to the works of ...
6 space of not less than twelve years , our information is so flimsy and fragmentary that we think it best to avoid the temptation of filling up lacunæ with imaginary hypotheses , by referring the reader once for all to the works of ...
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... less reading it . The fact is , the only merit which fairly belongs . to it is relative in kind and inferior in degree : relative in kind , because in Lilliput Gullivers are Gogs , and , incredible as it may appear , the Etourdi ...
... less reading it . The fact is , the only merit which fairly belongs . to it is relative in kind and inferior in degree : relative in kind , because in Lilliput Gullivers are Gogs , and , incredible as it may appear , the Etourdi ...
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Page 41 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 248 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 262 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Page 226 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 179 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 279 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
Page 246 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 254 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 178 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er? "No — shall the good want health, the good want power?" Add health and power, and every earthly thing, "Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
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