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... readers . Many of their most splendid articles were essays rather than reviews . The writer whose work afforded the name of the subject was summarily disposed of in a quiet sneer , a terse sarcasm , or a faint panegyric , and the ...
... readers . Many of their most splendid articles were essays rather than reviews . The writer whose work afforded the name of the subject was summarily disposed of in a quiet sneer , a terse sarcasm , or a faint panegyric , and the ...
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... readers to obtain . some idea of Bacon and his philosophy . The wonderful clearness , point and vigor , of his style , send his thoughts right into every brain . Indeed , a person who is utterly insensible to the witchery of Macaulay's ...
... readers to obtain . some idea of Bacon and his philosophy . The wonderful clearness , point and vigor , of his style , send his thoughts right into every brain . Indeed , a person who is utterly insensible to the witchery of Macaulay's ...
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... reader is continually provoked by the pungent stim- ulants which are mixed in the composition of almost every sentence ; and the most careless and listless person who ever slept over a treatise on philosophy , cannot fail to find matter ...
... reader is continually provoked by the pungent stim- ulants which are mixed in the composition of almost every sentence ; and the most careless and listless person who ever slept over a treatise on philosophy , cannot fail to find matter ...
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... readers of judgment and reflection . Behind the external show and glittering vesture of his thoughts , beneath all his pomp of diction , aptness of illustration , splendor of imagery , and epigrammatic point and glare , a careful eye ...
... readers of judgment and reflection . Behind the external show and glittering vesture of his thoughts , beneath all his pomp of diction , aptness of illustration , splendor of imagery , and epigrammatic point and glare , a careful eye ...
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... reader no more thinks of making it a matter for grave critical accusation , than of quarrelling with Congreve for his excess of wit , or with Carlyle for his excess of spirituality . - - It may now be asked by some sapient critics , Why ...
... reader no more thinks of making it a matter for grave critical accusation , than of quarrelling with Congreve for his excess of wit , or with Carlyle for his excess of spirituality . - - It may now be asked by some sapient critics , Why ...
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Side 346 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Side 252 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Side 262 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Side 417 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Side 259 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Side 253 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Side 332 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Side 345 - Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Side 346 - Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Side 62 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.