Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... resolved to probe Atticus to the bottom . Let me at once say that I find you were right . He is no dupe , whether of himself , or of cir- cumstances . His tranquillity is sincere ; and he affords an example of a most useful truth ...
... resolved to probe Atticus to the bottom . Let me at once say that I find you were right . He is no dupe , whether of himself , or of cir- cumstances . His tranquillity is sincere ; and he affords an example of a most useful truth ...
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... At least , I thought it had a better chance of doing so than philosophy and gardening , which now seemed so much to absorb him . I had indeed resolved to examine him shrewdly , and search whether some- thing of ATTICUS . 17.
... At least , I thought it had a better chance of doing so than philosophy and gardening , which now seemed so much to absorb him . I had indeed resolved to examine him shrewdly , and search whether some- thing of ATTICUS . 17.
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... resolved boldly to enter on my subject . Prefa- tory to this , however , having been at the drawing room but three days before , I began the praises of the Court , which I knew he once admired . " Well , ” said I , " but the Court is a ...
... resolved boldly to enter on my subject . Prefa- tory to this , however , having been at the drawing room but three days before , I began the praises of the Court , which I knew he once admired . " Well , ” said I , " but the Court is a ...
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... resolved , if he could , to seek refuge in oblivion , or at least to think , with Hazlitt , that all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it . ' The luncheon was served in the library , which 66 we had visited on the day ...
... resolved , if he could , to seek refuge in oblivion , or at least to think , with Hazlitt , that all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it . ' The luncheon was served in the library , which 66 we had visited on the day ...
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... than ever struck with all that I had seen and heard , and hoped still to see and hear . For , as to my mission , though success seemed farther off than ever , I would not yet resolve to give it entirely up , but wished ATTICUS . 91.
... than ever struck with all that I had seen and heard , and hoped still to see and hear . For , as to my mission , though success seemed farther off than ever , I would not yet resolve to give it entirely up , but wished ATTICUS . 91.
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Page 39 - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
Page 82 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue.
Page 332 - They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
Page 118 - So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down...
Page 314 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 118 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 246 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 55 - I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality ; but I look upon all that has passed as one of those romantic dreams which opium commonly occasions ; and I do by no means desire to repeat the nauseous dose, for the sake of the fugitive dream.
Page 54 - I have seen,' says this man of the world, " the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is in truth very low; whereas those who have not experienced always over-rate them.
Page 19 - ... tangled wood we fill them with what shapes we please, with ravenous beasts, with caverns vast, and drear enchantments, so in our ignorance of the world about us, we make gods or devils of the first object we see, and set no bounds to the wilful suggestions of our hopes and fears.