Acme Library of Standard BiographyAmerican book exchange, 1880 - 816 strán (strany) |
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Strana 7
... wish , perhaps , dearest to his heart was , that he might rank among the masters of French rhetoric and poetry . He wrote prose and verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had ...
... wish , perhaps , dearest to his heart was , that he might rank among the masters of French rhetoric and poetry . He wrote prose and verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had ...
Strana 9
... wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire . His sweetened confectionery had always a delicate , yet stimulating flavor , which was delightful to palates wearied by the ...
... wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire . His sweetened confectionery had always a delicate , yet stimulating flavor , which was delightful to palates wearied by the ...
Strana 17
... wish to raise France to supreme power on the continent , at the expense of the house of Hapsburg . His first object was to rob the Queen of Hungary . Hs second was that , if possible , no- body should rob her but himself . He had ...
... wish to raise France to supreme power on the continent , at the expense of the house of Hapsburg . His first object was to rob the Queen of Hungary . Hs second was that , if possible , no- body should rob her but himself . He had ...
Strana 30
... wishes , his greediness for lucre was unrestrained either by justice or by shame . He had the effrontery to ask for a thousand louis more , in order to enable him to bring his niece , Madame Denis , the ugliest of coquettes , in his ...
... wishes , his greediness for lucre was unrestrained either by justice or by shame . He had the effrontery to ask for a thousand louis more , in order to enable him to bring his niece , Madame Denis , the ugliest of coquettes , in his ...
Strana 34
... wish . Maria Theresa had never for a moment forgotten the great wrong which she had received at the hand of Frederick . Young and delicate , just left an orphan , just about to be a mother , she had been compelled to fly from 34 ...
... wish . Maria Theresa had never for a moment forgotten the great wrong which she had received at the hand of Frederick . Young and delicate , just left an orphan , just about to be a mother , she had been compelled to fly from 34 ...
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Strana 4 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Strana 25 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 39 - I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.
Strana 38 - His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits.
Strana 25 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Strana 2 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there, till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.
Strana 19 - Barbarian : his youth had never been instructed in the arts of reading and writing ; the common ignorance exempted him from shame or reproach, but he was reduced to a narrow circle of existence, and deprived of those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Yet the book of nature and of man was open to his view ; and some fancy has been indulged in the political and philosophical observations which are ascribed to the Arabian traveller.
Strana 15 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Strana 38 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of The Justice of Peace.
Strana 56 - Confute me," he concluded," by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I; I can do no other: God assist me!"—It is, as we say, the greatest moment in the Modern History of Men.