Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : a New Series, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1873 - Great Britain |
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... King Candanles ; another Gyges might nefariously cut his throat after robbing him of his treasure ! The lords of the literary world know full well how to cajole them at need , these poor collectors . One while they publish their ...
... King Candanles ; another Gyges might nefariously cut his throat after robbing him of his treasure ! The lords of the literary world know full well how to cajole them at need , these poor collectors . One while they publish their ...
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... Kings of France , beginning with Pharamond , at Versailles , or those of the Kings of Scotland at Holyrood , which ( as Sir Walter Scott relates ) elicited an acute criticism from a Persian am- bassador . Addressing the housekeeper who ...
... Kings of France , beginning with Pharamond , at Versailles , or those of the Kings of Scotland at Holyrood , which ( as Sir Walter Scott relates ) elicited an acute criticism from a Persian am- bassador . Addressing the housekeeper who ...
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... kings or popes ; but it is a very different matter when we are required to believe that no trustworthy images of the heroes , statesmen , poets , orators , and philosophers of classical antiquity have descended to us : that the busts of ...
... kings or popes ; but it is a very different matter when we are required to believe that no trustworthy images of the heroes , statesmen , poets , orators , and philosophers of classical antiquity have descended to us : that the busts of ...
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... king re- mained inexorable . The rise and fall of Kant's wig are thought to indicate not only the fitful changes of the curiosity - market , but the rise and fall of his philo- sophy . It ( the wig ) fetched thirty thousand florins at ...
... king re- mained inexorable . The rise and fall of Kant's wig are thought to indicate not only the fitful changes of the curiosity - market , but the rise and fall of his philo- sophy . It ( the wig ) fetched thirty thousand florins at ...
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... king is in the middle , on his throne : in the left hand he holds a scroll on which are these words , L'age d'or ; but by a very offensive oversight it is so placed that he seems to be rummaging his pockets with his right hand . ' A ...
... king is in the middle , on his throne : in the left hand he holds a scroll on which are these words , L'age d'or ; but by a very offensive oversight it is so placed that he seems to be rummaging his pockets with his right hand . ' A ...
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Page 231 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 240 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate, indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, Sir, if turning from such thoughts I resume this comparative view once more.
Page 291 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 318 - See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Page 2 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 287 - quia tanti quantum habeas sis' : quid facias illi? iubeas miserum esse, libenter quatenus id facit: ut quidam memoratur Athenis sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces 65 sic solitus : 'populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.
Page 69 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 341 - And they believe him !— oh ! the lover may Distrust that look which steals his soul away ; — The babe may cease to think that it can play With heaven's rainbow ;— alchymists may doubt The shining gold their crucible gives out ; — But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
Page 265 - As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm!
Page 250 - I have known sailors, who had been in all the quarters of the world, and could tell you nothing but the signs of the tippling-houses they frequented in different ports, and the price and quality of the liquor.