The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Zväzok 2F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 strán (strany) |
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Strana 442
... become the contrivers of their own misery , as a punishment on themselves for departing from the measures of nature . Having by an habitual reflection on these truths made them familiar , the effect is , that I , among a number of ...
... become the contrivers of their own misery , as a punishment on themselves for departing from the measures of nature . Having by an habitual reflection on these truths made them familiar , the effect is , that I , among a number of ...
Strana 448
... becomes dreadfully flat and stale when it has been out for fifty years ; the dullest , flattest , dreariest read- ing that can be found on the shelves is the sprightly novel of society , written in the Thirties . A blight had fallen ...
... becomes dreadfully flat and stale when it has been out for fifty years ; the dullest , flattest , dreariest read- ing that can be found on the shelves is the sprightly novel of society , written in the Thirties . A blight had fallen ...
Strana 454
... become classics . He was born January 19th , 1850 , at Wavertree , near Liverpool , and educated at Cambridge , graduating with honors in law and history in 1872. He was called to the bar in 1875 , and in 1889 returned to Par- liament ...
... become classics . He was born January 19th , 1850 , at Wavertree , near Liverpool , and educated at Cambridge , graduating with honors in law and history in 1872. He was called to the bar in 1875 , and in 1889 returned to Par- liament ...
Strana 455
... become well known , of the countryman who , being asked to account for the grav- ity of his dog , replied : " Oh , sir ! life is full of sairiousness to him he can just never get eneugh o ' fechtin ' . " Something of the spirit of this ...
... become well known , of the countryman who , being asked to account for the grav- ity of his dog , replied : " Oh , sir ! life is full of sairiousness to him he can just never get eneugh o ' fechtin ' . " Something of the spirit of this ...
Strana 488
... becomes more refined with respect to the beauties of composition , it will cer- tainly assist him to produce the more finished beauties in his work . Genius , however , in a poet or orator , may sometimes exist in a higher degree than ...
... becomes more refined with respect to the beauties of composition , it will cer- tainly assist him to produce the more finished beauties in his work . Genius , however , in a poet or orator , may sometimes exist in a higher degree than ...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Zväzok 2 David Josiah Brewer Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1900 |
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actions Anatomy of Melancholy appear Aristotle beauty behold body BOETHIUS born called cause character Church common conceive creatures Danton darkness death desire devil divinity doth earth effect essays faculty faith fear feel French literature friends Gastronomy genius give hand happiness hath heaven honor human Iago idea imagination intellectual judgment knowledge labor laws less liberty light literature live look manner MARQUIS OF BECCARIA matter means mind moral nature never object observed opinion Othello ourselves pain passion person philosophy piece Plato pleasure poet poetical poetry present principles qualities reason Religio Medici religion Robespierre Saint Paul sense Shakespeare song soul spirit sublime sweet taste thee things thou thought tion true truth unto Victor Hugo virtue wherein whole Wild Huntsman Wodan woman word writing young Jessie
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Strana 445 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Strana 806 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Strana 665 - Love thou thy land, with love far- brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Strana 765 - Physician art thou ? one all eyes, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave...
Strana 702 - I say unto you, refrain from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found to fight against God.
Strana 574 - For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Strana 613 - There is therefore but one comfort left, that, though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death...
Strana 587 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Strana 578 - But to difference myself nearer, and draw into a lesser circle : there is no Church, whose every part so squares unto my conscience ; whose Articles, constitutions, and customs, seem so consonant unto reason, and as it were framed to my particular devotion, as this whereof I hold my belief, the Church of England...
Strana 706 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts.