Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1852 - Всего страниц: 744 |
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... less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup- plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the ...
... less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup- plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the ...
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... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that ...
... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that ...
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... less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
... less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
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... less , and was neglected till it became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for cen- taries in most parts of Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till ...
... less , and was neglected till it became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for cen- taries in most parts of Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till ...
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... less comprehensive , but it had served to correct his speculations , and to ciple , that societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private hap- piness , is not recognised with sufficient clear- ness . The ...
... less comprehensive , but it had served to correct his speculations , and to ciple , that societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private hap- piness , is not recognised with sufficient clear- ness . The ...
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Стр. 286 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Стр. 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and Intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment ; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this, — the People will assuredly...
Стр. 13 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Стр. 287 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Стр. 38 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage ? ' O la ! sir,' said he, ' I perceive now it is what you told me.
Стр. 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Стр. 278 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...
Стр. 401 - Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Стр. 16 - by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a. mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Стр. 16 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.