The National Review, Volumen2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... passion , watches syllables and waits on words , is alive to the light air of nice associations which float about every subject- the moats in the bright sunbeam - the delicate gradations of the passing shadows . There is the stupid ...
... passion , watches syllables and waits on words , is alive to the light air of nice associations which float about every subject- the moats in the bright sunbeam - the delicate gradations of the passing shadows . There is the stupid ...
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... passions with the people they speak of , involved it may be in the events they speak of , and therefore describing them with the partiality and narrowness of an eager actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish ...
... passions with the people they speak of , involved it may be in the events they speak of , and therefore describing them with the partiality and narrowness of an eager actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish ...
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... passion , instruct the mind with patient instances of accurate wisdom . The universal is confined to a dry enumeration of superficial transactions ; no action can have all its details ; the canvas is so crowded that no figure has room ...
... passion , instruct the mind with patient instances of accurate wisdom . The universal is confined to a dry enumeration of superficial transactions ; no action can have all its details ; the canvas is so crowded that no figure has room ...
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... passions of our race ; he has no place among the felicit- ous describers of detailed life , for his subject was too vast for minute painting , and his style too uniform for a shifting scene . But he is entitled to a high - perhaps to a ...
... passions of our race ; he has no place among the felicit- ous describers of detailed life , for his subject was too vast for minute painting , and his style too uniform for a shifting scene . But he is entitled to a high - perhaps to a ...
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... passion broke forth - the cold and polished world seemed to meet its end ; the thin superficies of civilisation was torn asunder ; the fountains of the great deep seemed opened ; impiety to meet its end ; the foundations of the earth ...
... passion broke forth - the cold and polished world seemed to meet its end ; the thin superficies of civilisation was torn asunder ; the fountains of the great deep seemed opened ; impiety to meet its end ; the foundations of the earth ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...