The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 páginas |
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... human creature , wise beyond others , and yet full of amiable weaknesses , who with the unabashed candour of the child , totally unacquainted with the prudishness which begets shame , is willing to present us with the substance of his ...
... human creature , wise beyond others , and yet full of amiable weaknesses , who with the unabashed candour of the child , totally unacquainted with the prudishness which begets shame , is willing to present us with the substance of his ...
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... human greatness ( nay , that would not suffice , for they would be gods too ) , they certainly possessed it : and yet one of them , who styled himself lord and god of the earth , could not tell how to pass his whole day pleasantly ...
... human greatness ( nay , that would not suffice , for they would be gods too ) , they certainly possessed it : and yet one of them , who styled himself lord and god of the earth , could not tell how to pass his whole day pleasantly ...
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... human life going on in all that period ; though we are mortified at being obliged to quit our stand before the rest of the procession passes . It may be suggested in explanation of this difference , that we know from various records and ...
... human life going on in all that period ; though we are mortified at being obliged to quit our stand before the rest of the procession passes . It may be suggested in explanation of this difference , that we know from various records and ...
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... humanity might not wish , if it could , to be entirely free from pain : for it endeavours , at all times , to turn pain into pleasure : or at least to set off the one with the other , to make the former a zest and the latter a ...
... humanity might not wish , if it could , to be entirely free from pain : for it endeavours , at all times , to turn pain into pleasure : or at least to set off the one with the other , to make the former a zest and the latter a ...
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... humanity . We do not mean that every one must lose one of his children in order to enjoy the rest , or that every in- dividual loss afflicts us in the same proportion . We allude to the deaths of infants in general . These might be as ...
... humanity . We do not mean that every one must lose one of his children in order to enjoy the rest , or that every in- dividual loss afflicts us in the same proportion . We allude to the deaths of infants in general . These might be as ...
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Página 329 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Página 319 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Página 222 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.
Página 262 - He heeded not reviling tones, Nor sold his heart to idle moans, Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones; 'But looking upward, full of grace, He pray'd, and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face.
Página 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only.
Página 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Página 145 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor ; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern to reflect that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...