The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 34Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1855 |
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... manner of speaking , and a visage that looks ill - nature itself . In short , I have thought myself into a settled melancholy , and an utter disgust of all that life brings with it . " It was through the very excess of the darkness ...
... manner of speaking , and a visage that looks ill - nature itself . In short , I have thought myself into a settled melancholy , and an utter disgust of all that life brings with it . " It was through the very excess of the darkness ...
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... manner for a close , sus- picious air , and that he was now on his guard against the needy sharpers who , instead of picking his pockets , prevailed on him to empty them of his own accord into their hands . But he rightly called himself ...
... manner for a close , sus- picious air , and that he was now on his guard against the needy sharpers who , instead of picking his pockets , prevailed on him to empty them of his own accord into their hands . But he rightly called himself ...
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... manner . ' Though there is broad truth in the commen- dation of Johnson , it conveys an exaggerated notion of the merit of the book , which is not only destitute of exact scholarship , but bears in the style innumerable marks of the ...
... manner . ' Though there is broad truth in the commen- dation of Johnson , it conveys an exaggerated notion of the merit of the book , which is not only destitute of exact scholarship , but bears in the style innumerable marks of the ...
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... manner to his former comedy . there is this prominent distinction , that in the " Good - natured Man " he has concentrated his strength upon the humor which grows out of character , and in " She Stoops to Conquer " upon the mirth which ...
... manner to his former comedy . there is this prominent distinction , that in the " Good - natured Man " he has concentrated his strength upon the humor which grows out of character , and in " She Stoops to Conquer " upon the mirth which ...
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... manner , " says Davies , " was uncouth , his language unpolished , and his elocution was continually interrupted by disagreeable hesitation . " " He expressed himself , " says his friend Mr. Cooke , " upon common subjects with a ...
... manner , " says Davies , " was uncouth , his language unpolished , and his elocution was continually interrupted by disagreeable hesitation . " " He expressed himself , " says his friend Mr. Cooke , " upon common subjects with a ...
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Seite 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Seite 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 152 - ... of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Seite 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Seite 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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