The National Review, Том 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... thing upon the subject of their duration ; 1st , because there is not light enough in history to settle it ; 2dly , because the thing itself is of no concern to us . As to his first reason , I am at a loss to conceive what further light ...
... thing upon the subject of their duration ; 1st , because there is not light enough in history to settle it ; 2dly , because the thing itself is of no concern to us . As to his first reason , I am at a loss to conceive what further light ...
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... thing by its proper name , almost the whole compass of the Greek tongue is comprised in Homer . I have so far met with the success I hoped for , that I have acquired a great facility in reading the language , and treasured up a very ...
... thing by its proper name , almost the whole compass of the Greek tongue is comprised in Homer . I have so far met with the success I hoped for , that I have acquired a great facility in reading the language , and treasured up a very ...
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... thing ; good - tempered people in a word , " caring for nothing until they are themselves hurt . " Lord North was of this class . You could hardly make him angry . " No doubt , " tapping his fat sides , " I am that odious thing a ...
... thing ; good - tempered people in a word , " caring for nothing until they are themselves hurt . " Lord North was of this class . You could hardly make him angry . " No doubt , " tapping his fat sides , " I am that odious thing a ...
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... thing " on principle , " said that the crimes of Warren Hastings surpassed any thing to be found in the " correct sentences of Tacitus or the luminous page of Gibbon . " Some one seems to have been struck with the jet of learning , and ...
... thing " on principle , " said that the crimes of Warren Hastings surpassed any thing to be found in the " correct sentences of Tacitus or the luminous page of Gibbon . " Some one seems to have been struck with the jet of learning , and ...
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... thing has happened , and that something is history . On this account , since a remarkably grave Greek discovered this plan for a serious immortality , a series of accomplished men have seldom been found wanting to derive a literary ...
... thing has happened , and that something is history . On this account , since a remarkably grave Greek discovered this plan for a serious immortality , a series of accomplished men have seldom been found wanting to derive a literary ...
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Стр. 37 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Стр. 53 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Стр. 196 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Стр. 37 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Стр. 375 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Стр. 358 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Стр. 391 - Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name.
Стр. 375 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Стр. 404 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 391 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...