The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. RobinsonHugh George Robinson 1867 |
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... common- wealth . In opposition to this , he contends that so far from fostering lies , poetry is the highest truth ; that the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use ; and that great men have loved poetry and patronized poets ...
... common- wealth . In opposition to this , he contends that so far from fostering lies , poetry is the highest truth ; that the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use ; and that great men have loved poetry and patronized poets ...
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... commonwealth , as the way of Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia ? I say , the way , because where Sir Thomas Moore erred , it was the fault of the man , and not of the poet : for that way of patterning a commonwealth was most 36 absolute ...
... commonwealth , as the way of Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia ? I say , the way , because where Sir Thomas Moore erred , it was the fault of the man , and not of the poet : for that way of patterning a commonwealth was most 36 absolute ...
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... commonwealth , we had not now missed and bewailed a worthy and undoubted patron of this argu- ment . Ye know him , I am sure ; yet I for honour's sake , and may it be eternal to him , shall name him , -the 23 Lord Brook . He , writing ...
... commonwealth , we had not now missed and bewailed a worthy and undoubted patron of this argu- ment . Ye know him , I am sure ; yet I for honour's sake , and may it be eternal to him , shall name him , -the 23 Lord Brook . He , writing ...
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... commonwealth . But with us , generally , no condition passes for servitude that is accompanied with great riches , with honours , and with the service of many inferiors . This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium : for ...
... commonwealth . But with us , generally , no condition passes for servitude that is accompanied with great riches , with honours , and with the service of many inferiors . This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium : for ...
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... commonwealth ; yet certainly all his fasces and tyrannical authority over so many boys takes away his own liberty more than theirs . I do but slightly touch upon all these particulars of the slavery of greatness : I shake but a few of ...
... commonwealth ; yet certainly all his fasces and tyrannical authority over so many boys takes away his own liberty more than theirs . I do but slightly touch upon all these particulars of the slavery of greatness : I shake but a few of ...
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329 페이지 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...
313 페이지 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south...
329 페이지 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
163 페이지 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
109 페이지 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
195 페이지 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
419 페이지 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
15 페이지 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
196 페이지 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands...
35 페이지 - ... most properly do imitate to teach and delight; and, to imitate, borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be: but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.