Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eaterTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 347 sider |
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... reader feel no alarm . Such a dissertation , and such a rehearsal , would be more painful to myself than they could be wearisome to him . For these things change their aspects according to the station from which they happen to be ...
... reader feel no alarm . Such a dissertation , and such a rehearsal , would be more painful to myself than they could be wearisome to him . For these things change their aspects according to the station from which they happen to be ...
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... reader will not accuse me of an aristocratic feeling , now that he understands what it is that I admire in the aristocracy , and with what limitation . It is my infirmity , if the reader chooses so to consider it , that I cannot frame ...
... reader will not accuse me of an aristocratic feeling , now that he understands what it is that I admire in the aristocracy , and with what limitation . It is my infirmity , if the reader chooses so to consider it , that I cannot frame ...
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... reader chooses , these infirmities , I was placed in a singularly fortunate position . My father , as I have said , had no brilliant qualities : but the moral integrity which I have attributed to his class , was so peculiarly expressed ...
... reader chooses , these infirmities , I was placed in a singularly fortunate position . My father , as I have said , had no brilliant qualities : but the moral integrity which I have attributed to his class , was so peculiarly expressed ...
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... readers are now much acquainted with this section of lite- rature ; even the powerful sketches of Beaumont and Fletcher , who , in their comic delineations , approach to Shakspeare , lie covered with dust ; and yet , whilst these things ...
... readers are now much acquainted with this section of lite- rature ; even the powerful sketches of Beaumont and Fletcher , who , in their comic delineations , approach to Shakspeare , lie covered with dust ; and yet , whilst these things ...
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... readers of this generation , and Sir Edward Pellew , ( afterwards Lord Exmouth , ) were the two Paladins of the first war with revolutionary France . These two names were never mentioned but in connection with some splendid and unequal ...
... readers of this generation , and Sir Edward Pellew , ( afterwards Lord Exmouth , ) were the two Paladins of the first war with revolutionary France . These two names were never mentioned but in connection with some splendid and unequal ...
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Side 91 - ... guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.
Side 38 - Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in, Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces Hasting, or on return, in robes of state ; Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power, Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road...
Side 322 - The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large extent. Innumerable are the services to truth, to justice, or society, which never can be adequately valued by those who reap their benefits, simply because the transition from the early and bad state to the final or improved state cannot be retraced or kept alive before the eyes. The record perishes. The last point gained is seen ; but the starting point, the point from which it was gained, is forgotten.
Side 73 - ... and the continual regeneration of order from a system, of motions which for ever touch the very brink of confusion ; tha't such a spectacle, with such circumstances, may happen to be capable of exciting and sustaining the very grandest emotions of philosophic melancholy to which the human spirit is open. The reason is, in part, that such a scene presents a sort of mask of human life, with its whole equipage of pomps and glories, its luxury of sight and sound, its hours of golden youth, and the...
Side 71 - Fieri non debuit, factum valet. Were it otherwise, languages would be robbed of much of their wealth. And, universally, the class of purists, in matters of language, are liable to grievous suspicion, as almost constantly proceeding on half knowledge, and on insufficient principles. For example, if I have read one, I have read twenty letters, addressed to newspapers, denouncing the name of a great quarter in London, MaryIc-bonc, as ludicrously ungrammatical.
Side 38 - Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the...
Side 123 - ... the treatment he had received immediately after the action. He had returned to the castle for his sabre, and advanced with it to the gate, in order to deliver it up to some English officer, when it was seized and forced from his hand by a common soldier of Eraser's.
Side 52 - ... belongs to the coming metropolis, forces itself upon the dullest observer, in the growing sense of his own utter insignificance. Everywhere else in England, you yourself, horses, carriage, attendants (if you travel with any) are regarded with attention, perhaps even curiosity: at all events you are seen. But after passing the final post-house on every avenue to London, for the latter ten or twelve miles, you become aware that you are no longer noticed : nobody sees you ; nobody hears you; nobody...
Side 290 - ... of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakspeare was ; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, sequacious, like those of the planets ; not agile and assimilative ; not attracting all things within its own sphere ; not multiform : repulsion was the law of his intellect — he moved in solitary grandeur.