Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1848 |
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... whole face and parti- cularly his head , were unusually small , yet the last appeared of a remarkable bulk , for his hair he often rubbed it fiercely with his hands or passed was long and bushy . In the agony of declamation his fingers ...
... whole face and parti- cularly his head , were unusually small , yet the last appeared of a remarkable bulk , for his hair he often rubbed it fiercely with his hands or passed was long and bushy . In the agony of declamation his fingers ...
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... whole stay . some fun in him , though it in general lay sumed it , and it led to his expulsion . too deep for a hearty laugh . The forgeries He and Hogg had been speaking of of Chatterton and Ireland had amused mathematics . " The ...
... whole stay . some fun in him , though it in general lay sumed it , and it led to his expulsion . too deep for a hearty laugh . The forgeries He and Hogg had been speaking of of Chatterton and Ireland had amused mathematics . " The ...
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... whole trade of the haruspices of old : your Roman will not be robbed of his heathenism ; he only mixes up with his faith in these oracles an occasional ejaculation di- rected to some favorite saint , like those prayers for rich Inglesi ...
... whole trade of the haruspices of old : your Roman will not be robbed of his heathenism ; he only mixes up with his faith in these oracles an occasional ejaculation di- rected to some favorite saint , like those prayers for rich Inglesi ...
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... , will be the splendid cenotaph of his party . It will be brilliant in parts , tedious as a whole - curiously and minutely learned -written now with elaborate pomp , anders ? Much information 38 [ Jan. THOMAS MACAULAY ,
... , will be the splendid cenotaph of his party . It will be brilliant in parts , tedious as a whole - curiously and minutely learned -written now with elaborate pomp , anders ? Much information 38 [ Jan. THOMAS MACAULAY ,
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... whole course , no Hill of Dif- ficulty rising , nor Path of Danger diverg- ing , greeted , too , by endless vistas of in- terest and beauty , all are but too glad , and too grateful , to get so trippingly along . Vanity , also ...
... whole course , no Hill of Dif- ficulty rising , nor Path of Danger diverg- ing , greeted , too , by endless vistas of in- terest and beauty , all are but too glad , and too grateful , to get so trippingly along . Vanity , also ...
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Page 77 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 182 - The many men so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 127 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 63 - These dictates of reason men used to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.
Page 166 - To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Page 63 - The passions that incline men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them. And reason suggesteth convenient articles of peace upon which men may be drawn to agreement.
Page 20 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 73 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 156 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.