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 447
... poetic career . It is wonderful to think that he began to write in 1783 and died in 1855. Beckford , whose " Vathek » appeared in 1786 , was living until 1844. Among others who were still living in 1837 were James and Horace Smith ...
... poetic career . It is wonderful to think that he began to write in 1783 and died in 1855. Beckford , whose " Vathek » appeared in 1786 , was living until 1844. Among others who were still living in 1837 were James and Horace Smith ...
Strana 449
... poet's work he sold exactly fifty copies . Another , a " humorous " bard , who also received a large sum for his ... Poets have now to pay for the publication of their own works , but novelists — some of them - command a price ; those ...
... poet's work he sold exactly fifty copies . Another , a " humorous " bard , who also received a large sum for his ... Poets have now to pay for the publication of their own works , but novelists — some of them - command a price ; those ...
Strana 450
... poets , for instance , with their scholarship , seclusion , and pedantry — if these should attempt to do what Montaigne suc- ceeded in doing , what sort of man would they produce ? Con- sider what ordinary people talk about ; listen to ...
... poets , for instance , with their scholarship , seclusion , and pedantry — if these should attempt to do what Montaigne suc- ceeded in doing , what sort of man would they produce ? Con- sider what ordinary people talk about ; listen to ...
Strana 458
... poet who could write like Crabbe . Cardinal Newman , Mr. Leslie Stephen , Mr. Swinburne , are not always of the same ... poets of Walter Scott , and whenever the closing scene of the great magician's life is read in the pages of Lockhart ...
... poet who could write like Crabbe . Cardinal Newman , Mr. Leslie Stephen , Mr. Swinburne , are not always of the same ... poets of Walter Scott , and whenever the closing scene of the great magician's life is read in the pages of Lockhart ...
Strana 463
... poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime ... poet and musician , and his best work as an essayist was inspired by his study of Scotch BLACKIE, JOHN Stuart 1809 ...
... poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime ... poet and musician , and his best work as an essayist was inspired by his study of Scotch BLACKIE, JOHN Stuart 1809 ...
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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.