Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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... spirit deal- ers of the city were also in ill - humor with the Whig government , on account of the continuance of ... spirits . " To all these Macaulay was blunt and unconciliating , strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred ...
... spirit deal- ers of the city were also in ill - humor with the Whig government , on account of the continuance of ... spirits . " To all these Macaulay was blunt and unconciliating , strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred ...
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... spirit ! You are not of his mind , my gallant Ligarius . Dice , Chian , and the loveliest Greek singing - girl that was ever seen . Think of that , Ligarius . By Venus , she almost made me adore her , by telling me that I talked Greek ...
... spirit ! You are not of his mind , my gallant Ligarius . Dice , Chian , and the loveliest Greek singing - girl that was ever seen . Think of that , Ligarius . By Venus , she almost made me adore her , by telling me that I talked Greek ...
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... spirit to the claps and hisses of the vulgar ; to smile on suitors who united the insults of a despicable pride to the endearments of a loathsome fondness ; to affect sprightliness with an aching head , and from which tears were ready ...
... spirit to the claps and hisses of the vulgar ; to smile on suitors who united the insults of a despicable pride to the endearments of a loathsome fondness ; to affect sprightliness with an aching head , and from which tears were ready ...
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... spirit of human dealing . " But something is still wanting . We read , and we admire , and we yawn . We look in vain for the bacchanalian fury which inspired the com- edy of Athens , for the fierce and withering scorn which animates the ...
... spirit of human dealing . " But something is still wanting . We read , and we admire , and we yawn . We look in vain for the bacchanalian fury which inspired the com- edy of Athens , for the fierce and withering scorn which animates the ...
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... spirit of the age tend less to this result than its political circumstances . Fanaticism is an evil , but it is not the greatest of evils . It is good that a people should be roused by any means from a state of utter torpor ; - that ...
... spirit of the age tend less to this result than its political circumstances . Fanaticism is an evil , but it is not the greatest of evils . It is good that a people should be roused by any means from a state of utter torpor ; - that ...
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Стр. 430 - 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. 390 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Стр. 267 - There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Стр. 322 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Стр. 332 - 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. 324 - We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.
Стр. 256 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Стр. 413 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure...
Стр. 266 - Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faithful. May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Стр. 251 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.