Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysPhillips, Sampson, 1859 - 568 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... true humour . sibility . But the wonder should rather be to In France , since the days of Montaigne , it seems see them divided ; to find true genial humour to be nearly extinct . Voltaire , much as he dealt dwelling in a mind that was ...
... true humour . sibility . But the wonder should rather be to In France , since the days of Montaigne , it seems see them divided ; to find true genial humour to be nearly extinct . Voltaire , much as he dealt dwelling in a mind that was ...
الصفحة 13
... true culture , has therefore been attained ; if not completely , at least more completely than in one of a thousand ordinary men . Nor let us forget , that in such a nature , it was not of easy attainment ; that where much was to be ...
... true culture , has therefore been attained ; if not completely , at least more completely than in one of a thousand ordinary men . Nor let us forget , that in such a nature , it was not of easy attainment ; that where much was to be ...
الصفحة 16
... true thought , or a noble crea- judged of . tion , passes lightly to us from the remotest Above a century ago , the Père Bouhours countries , provided only our minds be open to propounded to himself the pregnant question : receive it ...
... true thought , or a noble crea- judged of . tion , passes lightly to us from the remotest Above a century ago , the Père Bouhours countries , provided only our minds be open to propounded to himself the pregnant question : receive it ...
الصفحة 21
... true , as D'Alembert has never did exist in such perfection , and is now said , that for every man of letters , who de - as extinct as our own Squire Western . His serves that name , the motto and the watchword will be FREEDOM , TRUTH ...
... true , as D'Alembert has never did exist in such perfection , and is now said , that for every man of letters , who de - as extinct as our own Squire Western . His serves that name , the motto and the watchword will be FREEDOM , TRUTH ...
الصفحة 23
... true poetic genius , at their head , for none of them has left us a Vicar of Wakefield ; though , in regard to judgment , knowledge , general ta- lent , his place would scarcely be so high . that their views of it are not only dim and ...
... true poetic genius , at their head , for none of them has left us a Vicar of Wakefield ; though , in regard to judgment , knowledge , general ta- lent , his place would scarcely be so high . that their views of it are not only dim and ...
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الصفحة 104 - 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, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
الصفحة 21 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century ; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
الصفحة 4 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
الصفحة 327 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleetditch.
الصفحة 98 - Address might be unsafe to trifle with. Doubtless this stern hymn was singing itself, as he formed it, through the soul of Burns : but to the external ear, it should be sung with the throat of the whirlwind.
الصفحة 28 - The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear like a Cato Major among degenerate men; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe!
الصفحة 104 - His person was strong and robust, his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents.
الصفحة 103 - Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word, otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished man. As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remember the celebrated Mr.
الصفحة 126 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
الصفحة 104 - 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 attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since.