Guesses at TruthMacmillan, 1867 - 576 páginas |
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... hence in new points of view , you have only to get into a retired nook , and you hear water , and catch a glimpse of the tops of trees , but see nothing distinctly except the corner of rock where you are standing . You are surrounded by ...
... hence in new points of view , you have only to get into a retired nook , and you hear water , and catch a glimpse of the tops of trees , but see nothing distinctly except the corner of rock where you are standing . You are surrounded by ...
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... Hence the good are fain to purchase the acquiescence of the bad , by content- ing themselves with the second , third , or even fourth best , according as they can make their bargin . Courage , when it is not heroic self - sacrifice , is ...
... Hence the good are fain to purchase the acquiescence of the bad , by content- ing themselves with the second , third , or even fourth best , according as they can make their bargin . Courage , when it is not heroic self - sacrifice , is ...
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... Hence Greece alone affords a type of the natural development of the human mind through its various ages and stages . Owing to this , and perhaps still more to the influence , direct and indirect , of Christianity , we from the first ...
... Hence Greece alone affords a type of the natural development of the human mind through its various ages and stages . Owing to this , and perhaps still more to the influence , direct and indirect , of Christianity , we from the first ...
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... hence that Dryden took what he thought a very grand idea . But as thieves never know or dare to make the right use of their stolen goods , so is it mostly with plagiaries . The verbal likeness only exposes the empty turgidity of Dryden ...
... hence that Dryden took what he thought a very grand idea . But as thieves never know or dare to make the right use of their stolen goods , so is it mostly with plagiaries . The verbal likeness only exposes the empty turgidity of Dryden ...
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... hence seeing Nature , not as it is in itself , but refracted and dis- torted by a number of more or less turbid media . Ever and anon too some one would be seized with the ambition of surpassing his predecessors , and would try by a ...
... hence seeing Nature , not as it is in itself , but refracted and dis- torted by a number of more or less turbid media . Ever and anon too some one would be seized with the ambition of surpassing his predecessors , and would try by a ...
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Página 251 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Página 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Página 211 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 372 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Página 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Página 484 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...