Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 من الصفحات |
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... never seduced , or was suspected by his professional friends of seducing him , for one mo- ment , from professional duty . M. Teissier , ‡ in his ac- count of one of the French jurisconsults noticed in his Elóges , mentions that " he ...
... never seduced , or was suspected by his professional friends of seducing him , for one mo- ment , from professional duty . M. Teissier , ‡ in his ac- count of one of the French jurisconsults noticed in his Elóges , mentions that " he ...
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... never permitting a bit or scrap of time to be un- employed , -have supplied him with an abundance of literary hours . His literary acquisitions are principally owing to the rigid observance of four rules : -to direct his attention to ...
... never permitting a bit or scrap of time to be un- employed , -have supplied him with an abundance of literary hours . His literary acquisitions are principally owing to the rigid observance of four rules : -to direct his attention to ...
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... never revived , but that the super- eminent merit of Homer buoyed up his strains against the overwhelming waves of time , and restored them to cele- brity . This conjecture receives some countenance from the opinion generally ...
... never revived , but that the super- eminent merit of Homer buoyed up his strains against the overwhelming waves of time , and restored them to cele- brity . This conjecture receives some countenance from the opinion generally ...
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... ? Certainly not to Goldsmith's want of excellence : but the muse of Gray was of a higher order . To use an expres- sion attributed to Dr. Johnson , if she has sometimes the contortions , she has often what Goldsmith never has , 19.
... ? Certainly not to Goldsmith's want of excellence : but the muse of Gray was of a higher order . To use an expres- sion attributed to Dr. Johnson , if she has sometimes the contortions , she has often what Goldsmith never has , 19.
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... never has , the enthusiasm of the Sybil ; and even her ordinary gait shows her divine origin . * The greatest compliment which can be paid to Gray , is to mention his acknow- ledged superiority to Goldsmith . May not something of this ...
... never has , the enthusiasm of the Sybil ; and even her ordinary gait shows her divine origin . * The greatest compliment which can be paid to Gray , is to mention his acknow- ledged superiority to Goldsmith . May not something of this ...
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الصفحة 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
الصفحة 76 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, — enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land....
الصفحة 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
الصفحة 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
الصفحة 133 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 173 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
الصفحة 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
الصفحة 132 - ... to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.
الصفحة 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.