The American Whig Review, Band 5Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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... interest . His physical de- fects and provincial disfavors were either forgotten or mentioned only as augment- ing the wonders accomplished by his talent , in having surmounted disadvan- tages under which ordinary men would have ...
... interest . His physical de- fects and provincial disfavors were either forgotten or mentioned only as augment- ing the wonders accomplished by his talent , in having surmounted disadvan- tages under which ordinary men would have ...
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... interest lies most in mediating between such as want nothing but puffs for their labor , and such as want nothing but shams for their money ; and they probably would not be publishers , if they were ambitious of mar- tyrdom in any cause ...
... interest lies most in mediating between such as want nothing but puffs for their labor , and such as want nothing but shams for their money ; and they probably would not be publishers , if they were ambitious of mar- tyrdom in any cause ...
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... interest about him . We hear no word of his Round Table , or of his knights of high emprize . Queen Guenever seasons not the page with her jealousies , but merely plays the woman by marrying a nephew when Arthur is long absent ; and she ...
... interest about him . We hear no word of his Round Table , or of his knights of high emprize . Queen Guenever seasons not the page with her jealousies , but merely plays the woman by marrying a nephew when Arthur is long absent ; and she ...
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... interest to study the art of pleasing , if successful , they become the characters they before had only feigned ; if unsuccessful , they become what it was previously their chief aim to avoid . Sensitiveness is a lash given to us in our ...
... interest to study the art of pleasing , if successful , they become the characters they before had only feigned ; if unsuccessful , they become what it was previously their chief aim to avoid . Sensitiveness is a lash given to us in our ...
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... interest the reader , in whatever subject he chooses to write on , and gives it importance and prominence . People buy Hazlitt's books ; for his clear , familiar and sensible style , is grateful to every reader . He was not much of an ...
... interest the reader , in whatever subject he chooses to write on , and gives it importance and prominence . People buy Hazlitt's books ; for his clear , familiar and sensible style , is grateful to every reader . He was not much of an ...
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Seite 135 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Seite 54 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Seite 122 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale...
Seite 403 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 529 - WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles, — and unto graces, graces.
Seite 547 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Seite 174 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Seite 39 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Seite 518 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers...