The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Zväzok 4Hurd and Houghton, 1876 |
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... Even lightning is sometimes a failure : Niagara has horrible faults ; and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists . Such are the works of blind ele THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES . 29.
... Even lightning is sometimes a failure : Niagara has horrible faults ; and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists . Such are the works of blind ele THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES . 29.
Strana 30
... century , as they have been for the three last . The idolatry will be shaken : as idols , some of the classic models are destined to totter : and I foresee , without gifts of prophecy , that many laborers will soon be in this field ...
... century , as they have been for the three last . The idolatry will be shaken : as idols , some of the classic models are destined to totter : and I foresee , without gifts of prophecy , that many laborers will soon be in this field ...
Strana 48
... centuries- for seeing a Grecian tragedy presented on a British stage , and with the nearest approach possible to the beauty of those Athenian pomps which Sophocles which Phidias , which Pericles created , beautified , pro moted . I ...
... centuries- for seeing a Grecian tragedy presented on a British stage , and with the nearest approach possible to the beauty of those Athenian pomps which Sophocles which Phidias , which Pericles created , beautified , pro moted . I ...
Strana 63
... centuries menaced its existence . Having , therefore , the same motive of curiosity- having the same awe , connected first , with secrecy ; secondly , with remoteness ; and thirdly , with benefi- cent power , which turn our inquiries to ...
... centuries menaced its existence . Having , therefore , the same motive of curiosity- having the same awe , connected first , with secrecy ; secondly , with remoteness ; and thirdly , with benefi- cent power , which turn our inquiries to ...
Strana 64
... centuries , when our modern facilities for copying on paper , and the general art of reading , were too probably unknown ... century before Christ , from the brain of a blind man , who had not ( they say ) so much as chalk towards the ...
... centuries , when our modern facilities for copying on paper , and the general art of reading , were too probably unknown ... century before Christ , from the brain of a blind man , who had not ( they say ) so much as chalk towards the ...
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Strana 525 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Strana 504 - The pleasure-house is dust : behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom ; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Strana 351 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Strana 329 - The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Strana 351 - ... of the low fat Bedford Level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Strana 457 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Strana 531 - FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth : it was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account: the effect was — that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity: yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect.
Strana 535 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Strana 351 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Strana 472 - Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver: Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke.