Guesses at TruthMacmillan, 1867 - 576 páginas |
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Página xxii
... style * Those who recollect the talk of the Bachelors ' table at Trinity at this period speak of the vehemence with which Hare , then daily plunging deeper into the philosophy of Germany , used to utter his dislike of " Mr. Locke " and ...
... style * Those who recollect the talk of the Bachelors ' table at Trinity at this period speak of the vehemence with which Hare , then daily plunging deeper into the philosophy of Germany , used to utter his dislike of " Mr. Locke " and ...
Página xxxix
... style of the narra- tive were concerned , but with hardly a single reference . To one of Hare's singular conscientiousness in quoting , and verifying quotations , this was eminently unsatisfactory , and he imposed on himself the task ...
... style of the narra- tive were concerned , but with hardly a single reference . To one of Hare's singular conscientiousness in quoting , and verifying quotations , this was eminently unsatisfactory , and he imposed on himself the task ...
Página xliv
... style to which Coleridge could lay no claim . He exerted him- self to obtain for his friend the Professorship of Modern History and English Literature at King's College , London . The ties were to be drawn yet closer . Hare , who had ...
... style to which Coleridge could lay no claim . He exerted him- self to obtain for his friend the Professorship of Modern History and English Literature at King's College , London . The ties were to be drawn yet closer . Hare , who had ...
Página 41
... styles him , nor thinking of “ blessing the useful light , " as by a kind of second sight of utilitarianism the bard of Twickenham is pleased to make him . This distinctness of the Homeric descriptions leads Cicero , in a fine passage ...
... styles him , nor thinking of “ blessing the useful light , " as by a kind of second sight of utilitarianism the bard of Twickenham is pleased to make him . This distinctness of the Homeric descriptions leads Cicero , in a fine passage ...
Página 69
... style , in the various forms and modes of com- position . These principles , which they discerned from the first , and which other nations have hardly known anything of , except as primarily derivative from them , they exemplified in ...
... style , in the various forms and modes of com- position . These principles , which they discerned from the first , and which other nations have hardly known anything of , except as primarily derivative from them , they exemplified in ...
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admiration beauty become better blessed body called character Christian Church Cicero Coleridge deemed Demosthenes Diocletian discern duty earth effect England English epic poetry errour evil expression eyes faith fancy feelings former genius give Goethe Greece Greek ground hand heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea Iliad imagination individual instance intellectual Italy Julius Charles Hare knowledge labour language Laodamia least less light living look man's mankind manner means Medea merely Milton mind modern moral nation never object ochlocracy outward passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy Plato poem poet poetry principle racter reason reflexion regard religion Roman Rome seems seldom Sermons Shakspeare shew sight Socrates sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure Tacitus things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth understanding unity utterance whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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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...