Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1James Munroe, 1838 - 454 من الصفحات |
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... once the high and the low . Whilst his mother , who then lived with him , busily pursued her household work , occupying herself about stove and dresser , Jean Paul was sitting in a corner of the same room , at a simple writing - desk ...
... once the high and the low . Whilst his mother , who then lived with him , busily pursued her household work , occupying herself about stove and dresser , Jean Paul was sitting in a corner of the same room , at a simple writing - desk ...
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... once called Herder , ' a Priest of Nature , a mild Bramin , ' wandering amid spicy groves , and under benig- nant skies . The infinite Night with her solemn aspects , Day , and the sweet approach of Even and Morn , are full of meaning ...
... once called Herder , ' a Priest of Nature , a mild Bramin , ' wandering amid spicy groves , and under benig- nant skies . The infinite Night with her solemn aspects , Day , and the sweet approach of Even and Morn , are full of meaning ...
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... once bright eyes that had lain in them were mouldered into grey ashes . Cold thought ! clutch not like a cold spectre at my heart : I look up to the starry sky , and an everlasting chain stretches thither , and over , and below ; and ...
... once bright eyes that had lain in them were mouldered into grey ashes . Cold thought ! clutch not like a cold spectre at my heart : I look up to the starry sky , and an everlasting chain stretches thither , and over , and below ; and ...
الصفحة 36
... once for all un- derstood , decided on , and registered accordingly ; and dunce the thousandth writes of it like dunce the first . - With the aid of literary and intellectual intercourse , 36 CARLYLE'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... once for all un- derstood , decided on , and registered accordingly ; and dunce the thousandth writes of it like dunce the first . - With the aid of literary and intellectual intercourse , 36 CARLYLE'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
الصفحة 37
... once their plunderers and their scoffers , described them to the rest of Europe as a semi - barbarous people ; which comfortable fact the rest of Europe was willing enough to take on their word . During the greater part of the last ...
... once their plunderers and their scoffers , described them to the rest of Europe as a semi - barbarous people ; which comfortable fact the rest of Europe was willing enough to take on their word . During the greater part of the last ...
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الصفحة 296 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.
الصفحة 317 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
الصفحة 314 - ... in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation a most thorough conviction, that in the society of the most eminent men of his nation he was exactly where he was entitled to be; hardly deigned to flatter them by exhibiting even an occasional symptom of being flattered...
الصفحة 317 - Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty.
الصفحة 317 - I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their af'enrion particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know any thing I can add to these recollections of forty years since.
الصفحة 392 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
الصفحة 284 - Peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings ' the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself ' into articulate melody.' And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing...
الصفحة 315 - I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, 20 when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr.
الصفحة 336 - ... seen and felt, that not only his highest glory, but his first duty, and the true medicine for all his woes, lay here. The second was still less probable ; for his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly yet speedily, into that still country, where the hail-storms and fire-showers do not reach, and the heaviest-laden wayfarer at length lays down his load...
الصفحة 333 - ... side was gay with successive groups of gentlemen and ladies, all drawn together for the festivities of the night, not one of whom appeared willing to recognise him. The horseman dismounted, and joined Burns, who on his proposing to cross the street said: ' Nay, nay, my young friend, that's all over now; ' and quoted, after a pause, some verses of Lady Grizzel Baillie's pathetic ballad :