Guesses at TruthMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 576 pages |
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admiration affections beauty become better called character Christian Church Cicero Coleridge deemed Demosthenes discern Dugald Stewart duty earth English epic poetry errour evil expression eyes F. T. PALGRAVE faith fancy feeling former genius give Goethe Greece Greek ground hand heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea Iliad imagination individual instance intellectual Julius Charles Hare knowledge language Laodamia least less light living look man's mankind manner means Medea merely Milton mind modern moral nation never object ochlocracy outward passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy Plato poem poet poetry principle racter reason reflexion regard religion remarks Roman Rome scarcely seems seldom Shakspeare shew sight Socrates sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth understand unity utterance whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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Page 420 - Divinity of hell! When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Page 255 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Page 239 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 27 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Page 352 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 215 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 255 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Page 84 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 376 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Page 456 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?