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Página 455
... one who never mbled his head with what his neighbors ought about him, who
never worked un- he was fairly forced, ... heard to say that he never nembered
being in bed five minutes thout falling asleep ; he was a philoso- «□ in his way.
... one who never mbled his head with what his neighbors ought about him, who
never worked un- he was fairly forced, ... heard to say that he never nembered
being in bed five minutes thout falling asleep ; he was a philoso- «□ in his way.
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... being on his way home to Kentucky, having resigned his seat in the Senate to
canvass the State for Governor. Mr. Crittenden never could make a poor speech,
and on this occasion he made a very good one in commendation of Gen. Taylor.
... being on his way home to Kentucky, having resigned his seat in the Senate to
canvass the State for Governor. Mr. Crittenden never could make a poor speech,
and on this occasion he made a very good one in commendation of Gen. Taylor.
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We like this quaint humor of the austere scholar, as it occasionally breaks out in
the midst of his most serious disquisitions, hardly conscious, doubtless, to himself
, and unexpected by the reader. This humor, however, such as it is, never finds ...
We like this quaint humor of the austere scholar, as it occasionally breaks out in
the midst of his most serious disquisitions, hardly conscious, doubtless, to himself
, and unexpected by the reader. This humor, however, such as it is, never finds ...
Página 532
The old people were well enough pleased with all this ; his cheerfulness and new
ideas amused them and kept them awake ; he was, they thought, a good-natured
boy ; they liked him ; the old lady used to ask him to tea, and was never tired of ...
The old people were well enough pleased with all this ; his cheerfulness and new
ideas amused them and kept them awake ; he was, they thought, a good-natured
boy ; they liked him ; the old lady used to ask him to tea, and was never tired of ...
Página 630
Under his superintendence the whole place wore an air of neatness and order.
Out of doors, the fences were all in good keeping ; the lawn was always well
trimmed. Within, the floors were polished, the windows bright ; rooms never
opened ...
Under his superintendence the whole place wore an air of neatness and order.
Out of doors, the fences were all in good keeping ; the lawn was always well
trimmed. Within, the floors were polished, the windows bright ; rooms never
opened ...
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Página 158 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 35 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 100 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Página 23 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 143 - And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Página 158 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 159 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Página 516 - I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they Say, into the grave. — Any alteration, on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant...
Página 577 - I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for HeathclifF resembles the eternal rocks beneath : a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being...
Página 134 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...