Mixed EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 347 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 264 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
الصفحة 61 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
الصفحة 204 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
الصفحة 73 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
الصفحة 23 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
الصفحة 265 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
الصفحة 96 - And thus they are thrown back upon themselves — upon a defective type of religion, a narrow range of intellect and knowledge, a stunted sense of beauty, a low standard of manners.
الصفحة 200 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
الصفحة 264 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
الصفحة 212 - ... became on a sudden less communicable; and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen.