Guesses at TruthTaylor and Walton, 1847 - 402 pages |
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Page 63 - toward his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. And take the present horrour from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 332 - more in that of a husband and wife, who, though two persons, are in every interest one. Were this love extended to all, it would once more make all mankind one people and one family. To this end the first Christians sought to have all things in common : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he
Page 190 - become her in the days of her matronly dignity. Even now, after near twenty years, I still seem to hear the tone of exulting joy and motherly pride, bursting through her efforts to repress it, when, raising her kneeling son, she cried, Nay, my good soldier, up! My gentle Marcius, worthy Caius, and By
Page 57 - has bedizened his translation. This however only shews that the objects he speaks of " had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 309 - while the great age of our poetry is comprised in the last quarter of the sixteenth, and the first quarter of the seventeenth century, the great age of our philosophy and theology reaches down till near the close of the latter. Milton stands alone, and forms a link between the two. When a nation reaches its noon however, the
Page 14 - The intellect of the wise is like glass : it admits the light of heaven, and reflects it. They who have to educate children, should keep in mind that boys are to become men, and that girls are to become women. The neglect of this momentous consideration gives us a race of moral hermaphrodites.
Page 63 - sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, toward his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. And take the present horrour from the time, Which now suits with
Page 151 - wonder ! (cries Miranda, when she first sees the shipwreckt party;) How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is! 0 brave new world, That has such people in it
Page 313 - its untranslatableness in words of the same language, without injury to the meaning." This may be called Scotch English ; not as being exclusively the property of our northern brethren : but because the celebrated Scotch writers of the last century are in the first rank of those who have emboweled the substantial, roast-beef and plum-pudding English of our forefathers.
Page 225 - widely different things; and as the two acts are accompanied with widely different feelings, so must they justify different modes of enunciation." My introductory remarks however, I scarcely need add, apply to ends only, not to means. For means are variable ; ends continue the same. The road from London to Edinburgh