Bare SoulsHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 340 páginas |
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... enjoyed it . All children like to destroy , and in many aspects Voltaire was singu- larly a child . But what did he destroy ? He was born into a rotten social world . The poor were downtrodden , crushed , embittered . The rich were ...
... enjoyed it . All children like to destroy , and in many aspects Voltaire was singu- larly a child . But what did he destroy ? He was born into a rotten social world . The poor were downtrodden , crushed , embittered . The rich were ...
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... enjoyed , though one wonders how he could have done more or enjoyed more , whatever health he had . His best wish for a friend is that he may keep his taste for good victuals : " I am sorry for poor brother Menou ; but I hope that he ...
... enjoyed , though one wonders how he could have done more or enjoyed more , whatever health he had . His best wish for a friend is that he may keep his taste for good victuals : " I am sorry for poor brother Menou ; but I hope that he ...
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... enjoyed the comfort and luxury that money brought , enjoyed the display of it , doing things on a grand scale and having others feel that he did so . When he got a country estate of his own , he liked to ornament and develop it and make ...
... enjoyed the comfort and luxury that money brought , enjoyed the display of it , doing things on a grand scale and having others feel that he did so . When he got a country estate of his own , he liked to ornament and develop it and make ...
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... enjoyed the im- aginative writers of the past . Racine was a de- light to him and he was unwilling to hear him criticized : " I don't know what to say to you with regard to Racine : it sounds to me as if anybody should fall upon ...
... enjoyed the im- aginative writers of the past . Racine was a de- light to him and he was unwilling to hear him criticized : " I don't know what to say to you with regard to Racine : it sounds to me as if anybody should fall upon ...
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... enjoyed as well as criticized much that was admired by others . He found Rousseau's " Nouvelle Héloise " a bore , * as did Voltaire ; but the " Emile " interested and impressed him greatly.2 Montesquieu he praised with real enthusiasm ...
... enjoyed as well as criticized much that was admired by others . He found Rousseau's " Nouvelle Héloise " a bore , * as did Voltaire ; but the " Emile " interested and impressed him greatly.2 Montesquieu he praised with real enthusiasm ...
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Página 166 - But ah! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary!
Página 220 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Página 311 - We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show...
Página 105 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle : but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass, to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round,...
Página 192 - Your sun and moon and skies and hills and lakes affect me no more, or scarcely come to me in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof, beautifully painted but unable to satisfy the mind...
Página 82 - Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining: not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Página 83 - Must I plunge into metaphysics ? Alas, I cannot see in the dark ; nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat. Must I pore upon mathematics? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle.
Página 232 - Measure time by what is done and to die in 6 hours could plans be brought to conclusions, the looking upon the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Earth and its contents as materials to form greater things, that is to say, ethereal things.
Página 227 - That it is so is no fault of mine. No ! though it may sound a little paradoxical, it is as good as I had power to make it by myself.
Página 230 - I have asked myself so often why I should be a Poet more than other Men, — seeing how great a thing it is, — how great things are to be gained by it — What a thing to be in the Mouth of Fame — that at last the Idea has grown so monstrously beyond my seeming Power of attainment that the other day I nearly consented with myself to drop into a Phaeton...