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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... nature , but still more odd by design ; and that ( having first married a beautiful girl , from whom he parted at the church door ) he spent all the early part of his life partly in wandering over the world for many years , and partly ...
... nature , but still more odd by design ; and that ( having first married a beautiful girl , from whom he parted at the church door ) he spent all the early part of his life partly in wandering over the world for many years , and partly ...
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... nature than another ; but association , which gradually makes a bad speaker a good one , might 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 ...
... nature than another ; but association , which gradually makes a bad speaker a good one , might 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 ...
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... nature , morality , and religion , ten thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature . There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of ...
... nature , morality , and religion , ten thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature . There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of ...
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... nature , and caused oranges to be tied to the shrubs in the drive and garden . The stratagem succeeded admirably , and great was his exultation when an unlucky urchin from the village was detected in the act of sucking one through a ...
... nature , and caused oranges to be tied to the shrubs in the drive and garden . The stratagem succeeded admirably , and great was his exultation when an unlucky urchin from the village was detected in the act of sucking one through a ...
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... nature for which I have little taste . I envy you the dirt , the hurricane , and malignity in which ( as all London people ) you live . " Ever truly yours , " SYDNEY SMITH . " " If you come to the West to see your father , or , as the ...
... nature for which I have little taste . I envy you the dirt , the hurricane , and malignity in which ( as all London people ) you live . " Ever truly yours , " SYDNEY SMITH . " " If you come to the West to see your father , or , as 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.