Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 - 4페이지 |
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... things , hath given but an imperfect one here , informing us that a happy life is one without impediment to virtue . A happy life is not made up of negatives . Exemption from one thing is not possession of another . Had I been among his ...
... things , hath given but an imperfect one here , informing us that a happy life is one without impediment to virtue . A happy life is not made up of negatives . Exemption from one thing is not possession of another . Had I been among his ...
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... things which shall outlive the least perishable in the whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best ... thing we can achieve in poetry . I attempt no composition which I foresee will occupy more than an hour or two , so ...
... things which shall outlive the least perishable in the whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best ... thing we can achieve in poetry . I attempt no composition which I foresee will occupy more than an hour or two , so ...
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... things it throws off be verses , and indifferent ones , we are not to despise the cultivator of them , but to consider him as possessing the garden of innocence , at which the great body of mankind looks only through the gate . In the ...
... things it throws off be verses , and indifferent ones , we are not to despise the cultivator of them , but to consider him as possessing the garden of innocence , at which the great body of mankind looks only through the gate . In the ...
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... poet is thought to be lowered by the writing of epigrams . Southey . As you said of Wordsworth , the great poet could accom- 1 plish better things ; the others could not . People THIRD SERIES . ] 27 SOUTHEY AND PORSON .
... poet is thought to be lowered by the writing of epigrams . Southey . As you said of Wordsworth , the great poet could accom- 1 plish better things ; the others could not . People THIRD SERIES . ] 27 SOUTHEY AND PORSON .
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... things , and how much against those who have reinstated things for words . Porson . I find , however , much to censure in our modern poets ; I mean those who have written since Milton . But praise is due to such as threw aside the ...
... things , and how much against those who have reinstated things for words . Porson . I find , however , much to censure in our modern poets ; I mean those who have written since Milton . But praise is due to such as threw aside the ...
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383 페이지 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
518 페이지 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
375 페이지 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
366 페이지 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
443 페이지 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
374 페이지 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
127 페이지 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
382 페이지 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
386 페이지 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
44 페이지 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...