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... thought to add dignity to style , but which in truth only add vagueness . I am in no way ashamed to find that I can write purer and clearer English now than I did fourteen or fifteen years back ; and I think it well to mention the fact ...
... thought to add dignity to style , but which in truth only add vagueness . I am in no way ashamed to find that I can write purer and clearer English now than I did fourteen or fifteen years back ; and I think it well to mention the fact ...
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... thought of at all , it is because the wars of Guelf and Ghibelin are needed as a key to Dante , instead of Dante being needed as a commentary on the wars of Guelf and Ghibelin . And in later times , the blaze of poetic and artistic ...
... thought of at all , it is because the wars of Guelf and Ghibelin are needed as a key to Dante , instead of Dante being needed as a commentary on the wars of Guelf and Ghibelin . And in later times , the blaze of poetic and artistic ...
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... Thoughts pent up under the bondage of a despotism or an oligarchy would gladly catch at either means of expression , without being over - nice as to the comparative merits of the two methods . In the case both of ancient Greece and of ...
... Thoughts pent up under the bondage of a despotism or an oligarchy would gladly catch at either means of expression , without being over - nice as to the comparative merits of the two methods . In the case both of ancient Greece and of ...
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... thoughts worked in his own brain , whose passions beat in his heart , whose deeds were done by his hands . Such a patriotism might be narrow , ill - regulated , inconsistent with still better and loftier feelings ; but it worked up the ...
... thoughts worked in his own brain , whose passions beat in his heart , whose deeds were done by his hands . Such a patriotism might be narrow , ill - regulated , inconsistent with still better and loftier feelings ; but it worked up the ...
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... thought that a truer parallel to the struggle of the Lombard cities against the Swabian Emperors is to be found in the struggle of the Hellenic cities against the Persian Kings . It is easy to answer that the war of Guelf and Ghibelin ...
... thought that a truer parallel to the struggle of the Lombard cities against the Swabian Emperors is to be found in the struggle of the Hellenic cities against the Persian Kings . It is easy to answer that the war of Guelf and Ghibelin ...
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Page 313 - From the still glassy lake that sleeps Beneath Aricia's trees — Those trees in whose dim shadow The ghastly priest doth reign, The priest who slew the slayer, And shall himself be slain...
Page 207 - LECTURES ON ANCIENT HISTORY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE TAKING OF ALEXANDRIA BY OCTAYIANUS, CONTAINING The History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Carthaginians, BY BG NIEBUHR.
Page 93 - Egypt which drowns the spirit in effeminate indifference ; rather they are like the <f>dp/j,a/cov e<rd\6v, the remedial specific, which, freshening the understanding by contact with the truth and strength of nature, should both improve its vigilance against deceit and danger, and increase its vigour and resolution for the discharge of duty.
Page 53 - What strikes one more than anything else throughout Mr. Gladstone's volumes is the intense earnestness, the loftiness of moral purpose, which breathes in every page. He has not taken up Homer as a plaything, nor even as a mere literary enjoyment. To him the study of the Prince of Poets is clearly a means by which himself and other men may be made wiser and better.
Page 73 - All this is evidently heartfelt, and it almost deserves the name of eloquence ; yet it is to us simply unintelligible. Mr. Gladstone, by way of reverence for certain writings, actually goes out of his way to disparage them. Why cannot...
Page 73 - ... such a degree, indeed, that the rank and quality of the religious frame may in general be tested, at least negatively, by the height of its relish for them. There is the whole music of the human heart, when touched by the hand of the Maker, in all its tones that whisper or that swell, for every hope and fear, for every joy and pang, for every form of strength and languor, of disquietude and rest.
Page 308 - We may correct and improve from the stores which have been opened since Gibbon's time ; we may write again large parts of his story from other and often truer and more wholesome points of view, but the work of Gibbon as a whole, as the encyclopaedic history of...
Page 73 - If, however, we ought to decline to try the Judaic code by its merely political merits, much more ought we to apply the same principle to the sublimity of the prophecies, and to the deep spiritual experiences of the Psalms. In the first, we have a voice speaking from God, with the marks that it is of God so visibly imprinted upon it, that the mind utterly refuses to place the prophetical books in the scale against any production of human genius. And all that is peculiar in our conception of Isaiah,...