The Unique, Or, Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: With Fine Portraits : Illustrated with AnecdotesGeorge Smeeton C. & E.B. Gill, 1834 - 246 páginas Contains biographical sketches and other miscellanea. |
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... conduct was an illustration of the soundness of the maxim , that honesty is the best policy . ' The patriotism of Washington was of the most ardent kind , and without alloy . Very different from those clamorous spirits , who , with the ...
... conduct was an illustration of the soundness of the maxim , that honesty is the best policy . ' The patriotism of Washington was of the most ardent kind , and without alloy . Very different from those clamorous spirits , who , with the ...
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... the battle of Hopton Heath ; and Lord Clarendon calls him a gentleman of great courage , and very good conduct , who charg- ed with good execution . ' His elder brother , ་ Sir John Byron , makes a conspicuous fig- ure in 46 LORD BYRON .
... the battle of Hopton Heath ; and Lord Clarendon calls him a gentleman of great courage , and very good conduct , who charg- ed with good execution . ' His elder brother , ་ Sir John Byron , makes a conspicuous fig- ure in 46 LORD BYRON .
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... conduct ; and the result was , that he was suffered to retain his situation , though he met with a severe reprimand . The heart sickens at the recital of such bitterly severe and galling facts . Imagine a man of Burns's great tal- ent ...
... conduct ; and the result was , that he was suffered to retain his situation , though he met with a severe reprimand . The heart sickens at the recital of such bitterly severe and galling facts . Imagine a man of Burns's great tal- ent ...
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... conduct him to an untimely grave ! We now come to the conclusion of the life of this illustrious poet . In Burns , up- wards of a year before his death , there was an evident decline in his personal appear- ance ; and though his ...
... conduct him to an untimely grave ! We now come to the conclusion of the life of this illustrious poet . In Burns , up- wards of a year before his death , there was an evident decline in his personal appear- ance ; and though his ...
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... conducted on a plan perfectly well calculat- ed to render him a respectable scholar and an accomplished gentleman , but ill calculat- ed to make him a prudent prince . It was so austere , perhaps we should not use too harsh a word if we ...
... conducted on a plan perfectly well calculat- ed to render him a respectable scholar and an accomplished gentleman , but ill calculat- ed to make him a prudent prince . It was so austere , perhaps we should not use too harsh a word if we ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 82 - Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toiled after him in vain.
Página 82 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 84 - For this, probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Página 166 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Página 83 - Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence ; yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Página 61 - I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an /Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan, when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles.
Página 166 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell...
Página 166 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Página 39 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 61 - In short, she altogether, unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below ! How she caught the contagion I cannot tell.