The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the Edinburgh ReviewA. Hart, 1852 - English essays |
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... human affairs ; and to gain something like an assur- ance as to the complexion of that futurity to- wards which our thoughts are so anxiously driven , by the selfish as well as the generous principles of our nature . We are not ...
... human affairs ; and to gain something like an assur- ance as to the complexion of that futurity to- wards which our thoughts are so anxiously driven , by the selfish as well as the generous principles of our nature . We are not ...
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... human nature is tending , by a slow and inter- minable progression , to a state of perfection . This fascinating idea seems to have been kept constantly in view by Madame de Stael , from the beginning to the end of the work before us ...
... human nature is tending , by a slow and inter- minable progression , to a state of perfection . This fascinating idea seems to have been kept constantly in view by Madame de Stael , from the beginning to the end of the work before us ...
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... human fortune ; and the cure is to be found , in both cases , only in the enlightened opinion of those who stand a little lower . people ; and are every day extending their empire ,. The introduction ends with an eloquent profession of ...
... human fortune ; and the cure is to be found , in both cases , only in the enlightened opinion of those who stand a little lower . people ; and are every day extending their empire ,. The introduction ends with an eloquent profession of ...
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... human intellect was neither dead nor inactive , she contends , during that It would be very agreeable to believe all long slumber , in which it was collecting vig- this - in spite of the grudging which would our for unprecedented ...
... human intellect was neither dead nor inactive , she contends , during that It would be very agreeable to believe all long slumber , in which it was collecting vig- this - in spite of the grudging which would our for unprecedented ...
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... human nature , or the apparent interests of its ruling classes . But with regard to every thing depending on probable reasoning , or susceptible of debate , and especially with regard to every thing touching morality and enjoyment , we ...
... human nature , or the apparent interests of its ruling classes . But with regard to every thing depending on probable reasoning , or susceptible of debate , and especially with regard to every thing touching morality and enjoyment , we ...
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Page 313 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 358 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 314 - Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
Page 340 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
Page 314 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 341 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Page 341 - An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, 'Till, crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o...
Page 312 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Page 364 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 383 - Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...