Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , till they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors , by exhibiting ...
... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , till they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors , by exhibiting ...
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... interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more in- fluence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the ...
... interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more in- fluence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the ...
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... of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude MILTON . 35.
... of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude MILTON . 35.
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... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk with his ghosts and demons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to sup- per , and eat ...
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk with his ghosts and demons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to sup- per , and eat ...
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... interest in his character , for we think that his sentence de- scribes him with perfect justice as a tyrant , a traitor , a murderer , and a public enemy ; ' but because we are con- vinced that the measure was most injurious to the ...
... interest in his character , for we think that his sentence de- scribes him with perfect justice as a tyrant , a traitor , a murderer , and a public enemy ; ' but because we are con- vinced that the measure was most injurious to the ...
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Стр. 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Стр. 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Стр. 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Стр. 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Стр. 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Стр. 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Стр. 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Стр. 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Стр. 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Стр. 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...