English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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Página iii
... give nothing more than a selection from the most famous masters of the essay in its most characteristic form . Many note- worthy essayists are therefore omitted , Bacon on the one hand , Macaulay on the other . It seemed better that ...
... give nothing more than a selection from the most famous masters of the essay in its most characteristic form . Many note- worthy essayists are therefore omitted , Bacon on the one hand , Macaulay on the other . It seemed better that ...
Página ix
... gives us quite as much of an idea of the man that writes as of the thing that he writes about . And surely in its way this is very well . It will not do , of course , if we expect to find in one piece all possible information on some ...
... gives us quite as much of an idea of the man that writes as of the thing that he writes about . And surely in its way this is very well . It will not do , of course , if we expect to find in one piece all possible information on some ...
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... give it a thought . day it was something new . like our magazines ; it was , for one thing , much smaller , consisting generally of one single article on some subject of lighter interest . When it had run for two years Steele brought it ...
... give it a thought . day it was something new . like our magazines ; it was , for one thing , much smaller , consisting generally of one single article on some subject of lighter interest . When it had run for two years Steele brought it ...
Página xii
... gives us a description of him- self , as he affects to be , saying that , as he is a silent man , he proposes to " publish a sheet full of thoughts every morning for the benefit of his contemporaries , " with the hope of contributing to ...
... gives us a description of him- self , as he affects to be , saying that , as he is a silent man , he proposes to " publish a sheet full of thoughts every morning for the benefit of his contemporaries , " with the hope of contributing to ...
Página xiii
Edward Everett Hale. he imagined a Chinese traveler who gives an account of the manners and customs of the Eng- lish , and by this device he was enabled to talk about anything that he wished , just as Addison was by his idea of a ...
Edward Everett Hale. he imagined a Chinese traveler who gives an account of the manners and customs of the Eng- lish , and by this device he was enabled to talk about anything that he wished , just as Addison was by his idea of a ...
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Página 96 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 121 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página 92 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 97 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon further examination...
Página 2 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 5 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Página 80 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 70 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 67 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 95 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.