Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections. 1st [-3rd] SerLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859 - 894 Seiten |
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... give ; yet I feel myself , and I have reason to believe there are many who will feel with me , that this Life is not , therefore , un- interesting or unimportant ; for , though circumstances over which my father had no control forbade ...
... give ; yet I feel myself , and I have reason to believe there are many who will feel with me , that this Life is not , therefore , un- interesting or unimportant ; for , though circumstances over which my father had no control forbade ...
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... give you all my fortune . " In a letter written long after he had left Edinburgh , he exclaims , " When shall I see Scot- land again ? Never shall I forget the happy days passed there , amidst odious smells , barbarous sounds , bad ...
... give you all my fortune . " In a letter written long after he had left Edinburgh , he exclaims , " When shall I see Scot- land again ? Never shall I forget the happy days passed there , amidst odious smells , barbarous sounds , bad ...
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... give up all thoughts of connecting myself with it . " On the other hand , he had more than once to de- fend his guerilla - like inroads into grave subjects , and his dashing onslaughts on respectable bores , against the censures of a ...
... give up all thoughts of connecting myself with it . " On the other hand , he had more than once to de- fend his guerilla - like inroads into grave subjects , and his dashing onslaughts on respectable bores , against the censures of a ...
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... give , And those who live to please , must please to live . " The late lamented Charles Buller , improving on a * 66 Wagner . I have often heard say , a player might instruct a priest . " Faust . Yes , when the priest is a player , as ...
... give , And those who live to please , must please to live . " The late lamented Charles Buller , improving on a * 66 Wagner . I have often heard say , a player might instruct a priest . " Faust . Yes , when the priest is a player , as ...
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... give a man wit who had it not , if any man chose to be so absurd as to sit down to acquire it . " Why absurd , if the object were really attainable by study , and the man had no better or more urgent employment or pursuit ? The ...
... give a man wit who had it not , if any man chose to be so absurd as to sit down to acquire it . " Why absurd , if the object were really attainable by study , and the man had no better or more urgent employment or pursuit ? The ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 67 - And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Seite 87 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Seite 317 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Seite 88 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 96 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Seite 43 - ... soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault, To add a double quantity of salt: Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And once with vinegar, procured from town; True flavour needs it, and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs; Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And scarce suspected, animate the whole...
Seite 98 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Seite 214 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Seite 29 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Seite 393 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.