The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen3David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... hope and soft vernal sunbeams ! It was at Frankfort on the Main , on the twenty - eighth of August , 1749 , that this man entered the world and now , gently welcom- ing the birthday of his eighty - second spring , he closes his eyes ...
... hope and soft vernal sunbeams ! It was at Frankfort on the Main , on the twenty - eighth of August , 1749 , that this man entered the world and now , gently welcom- ing the birthday of his eighty - second spring , he closes his eyes ...
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... Hope is suddenly cut away , and only the backward vistas of Memory remain , shone on by a light that proceeds not from this earthly sun . ness . The death of Goethe , even for the many hearts that person- ally loved him , is not a thing ...
... Hope is suddenly cut away , and only the backward vistas of Memory remain , shone on by a light that proceeds not from this earthly sun . ness . The death of Goethe , even for the many hearts that person- ally loved him , is not a thing ...
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... hope , grounded in miscalculation , ending in disappointment ! How many world - famous victories were gained and lost , dynas- ties founded and subverted , revolutions accomplished , constitu- tions sworn to ; and ever the " new era ...
... hope , grounded in miscalculation , ending in disappointment ! How many world - famous victories were gained and lost , dynas- ties founded and subverted , revolutions accomplished , constitu- tions sworn to ; and ever the " new era ...
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... hope . Wealth has accumulated itself into masses ; and Poverty , also in accumulation enough , lies impassably separated from it ; opposed , uncommunicating , like forces in positive and negative poles . The gods of this lower world sit ...
... hope . Wealth has accumulated itself into masses ; and Poverty , also in accumulation enough , lies impassably separated from it ; opposed , uncommunicating , like forces in positive and negative poles . The gods of this lower world sit ...
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... hope of awakening here and there a British man to know himself for a man and divine soul , that a few words of parting admonition , to all persons to whom the Heavenly Powers have lent power of any kind in this land , may now be ...
... hope of awakening here and there a British man to know himself for a man and divine soul , that a few words of parting admonition , to all persons to whom the Heavenly Powers have lent power of any kind in this land , may now be ...
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Página 1096 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Página 1033 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 1138 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Página 1037 - D'avenant K* Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now Published Out of the Authors Originall Copies. London: Printed by TN for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1673.
Página 1064 - Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail beauty must decay...
Página 1033 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.
Página 1024 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted anything, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion, and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection, and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Página 1163 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Página 1033 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.] KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. KING. Where is Polonius? HAM. In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i
Página 1056 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.