Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : a New Series, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1873 - Great Britain |
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... relates an anecdote which will be new to most readers . M. de Lamartine , meeting M. Alexandre Dumas soon after the publication of the History of the Girondins , inquired anxiously of the famous romance - writer if he had read it ...
... relates an anecdote which will be new to most readers . M. de Lamartine , meeting M. Alexandre Dumas soon after the publication of the History of the Girondins , inquired anxiously of the famous romance - writer if he had read it ...
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... relates to the Mallebranche correspondence , purchased at the Millon sale by a collector and lent to a grand philosophe ( not named ) who forthwith made arrangements for publishing the letters and refused to return the originals ...
... relates to the Mallebranche correspondence , purchased at the Millon sale by a collector and lent to a grand philosophe ( not named ) who forthwith made arrangements for publishing the letters and refused to return the originals ...
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... relates the same incident with modifications . Procopius , in the time of Justinian , mentions this holy letter , then augmented by a post- script promising the city of Edessa that it should never fall into the hands of enemies ; and in ...
... relates the same incident with modifications . Procopius , in the time of Justinian , mentions this holy letter , then augmented by a post- script promising the city of Edessa that it should never fall into the hands of enemies ; and in ...
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... relates ) elicited an acute criticism from a Persian am- bassador . Addressing the housekeeper who was doing the honours , he asked , ' You paint them yourself ? ' and on her modest profession of inability , he continued , ' You no able ...
... relates ) elicited an acute criticism from a Persian am- bassador . Addressing the housekeeper who was doing the honours , he asked , ' You paint them yourself ? ' and on her modest profession of inability , he continued , ' You no able ...
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... relates a similar anecdote of Augustin Barbosa , Bishop of Ugento , who printed a treatise De Officio Episco- porum . His cook had brought home a fish wrapped in a leaf of Latin manuscript . The prelate had the curiosity to read the ...
... relates a similar anecdote of Augustin Barbosa , Bishop of Ugento , who printed a treatise De Officio Episco- porum . His cook had brought home a fish wrapped in a leaf of Latin manuscript . The prelate had the curiosity to read the ...
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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.