Conversations with an Ambitious Student in Ill Health: With Other PiecesJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 205 sider |
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... spirit that surrounds and keeps them for the use of successive generations renders the rarities for ever fresh and green . In them human life is laid down as on a map . The strong and vivid exhibitions of passion and of character which ...
... spirit that surrounds and keeps them for the use of successive generations renders the rarities for ever fresh and green . In them human life is laid down as on a map . The strong and vivid exhibitions of passion and of character which ...
Side 18
... spirits forsook me , society cooled . It is not quite true that adventitious claims alone , unless of the highest order , give one a permanent place in the charmed circle of the Armidas of our age . Society is a feast where every man ...
... spirits forsook me , society cooled . It is not quite true that adventitious claims alone , unless of the highest order , give one a permanent place in the charmed circle of the Armidas of our age . Society is a feast where every man ...
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... spirit of conversation consists in build- ing on another man's observation , not overturning it ; thus , the wit says , " apropos of your remark ; " and the disagreeable man exclaims , " I cannot agree with you . " Here our discourse ...
... spirit of conversation consists in build- ing on another man's observation , not overturning it ; thus , the wit says , " apropos of your remark ; " and the disagreeable man exclaims , " I cannot agree with you . " Here our discourse ...
Side 21
... spirit is reluctant to disavow . Besides , to one who , like us , has made a thirst and a first love of knowledge , what intenseness , as well as divinity , is there in that peculiar curiosity which relates to the extent of the ...
... spirit is reluctant to disavow . Besides , to one who , like us , has made a thirst and a first love of knowledge , what intenseness , as well as divinity , is there in that peculiar curiosity which relates to the extent of the ...
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... spirit , however different in style , Shakspeare and Scott convey the best idea of Homer . " The resemblance of Shakspeare to Homer I do not , indeed , trace ; but that of Scott to the great Greek I have often and often noted . Scott ...
... spirit , however different in style , Shakspeare and Scott convey the best idea of Homer . " The resemblance of Shakspeare to Homer I do not , indeed , trace ; but that of Scott to the great Greek I have often and often noted . Scott ...
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Side 133 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 92 - Love still has something of the sea From whence his mother rose; No time his slaves from doubt can free, Nor give their thoughts repose. They are becalmed in clearest days, And in rough weather tost; They wither under cold delays, Or are in tempests lost.
Side 117 - Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. ' He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Side 85 - Contrivance proves design ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world abounds with contrivances ; and all the contrivances which we are acquainted with are directed to beneficial purposes.
Side 86 - ... inseparable from it; or even, if you will, let it be called a defect in the contrivance; but it is not the object of it. This is a distinction which well deserves to be attended to. In describing implements of husbandry, you would hardly say of...
Side 202 - SEAWARD.- SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749, as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
Side 2 - THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Side 25 - And reeling through the wilderness of joy, Where Sense runs savage, broke from Reason's chain, And sings false peace, till smother'd by the pall.
Side 78 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy: we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty; we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice: our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects ; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Side 27 - ... that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality. The second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distaste or repining. The third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of nature to attain to the mysteries of God.