Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysPhillips, Sampson,, 1855 - 368 หน้า |
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... character , in spite of the impediments which he had struggled with , for talent and ac- quirement . Like his father , he was destined for Theology ; from which , however , his va- grant genius soon diverged into Poetry and Phi- losophy ...
... character , in spite of the impediments which he had struggled with , for talent and ac- quirement . Like his father , he was destined for Theology ; from which , however , his va- grant genius soon diverged into Poetry and Phi- losophy ...
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... characters ; indeed , more or less , to all of them , except such as are entirely humourous , or have a large dash of ... character ; bustling , buxom mothers and housewives , with all the caprices , perversities , B and warm , generous ...
... characters ; indeed , more or less , to all of them , except such as are entirely humourous , or have a large dash of ... character ; bustling , buxom mothers and housewives , with all the caprices , perversities , B and warm , generous ...
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... character of sequel and conclusion to the larger work , -of fourth volume to the other three . It is designed , of course , for the home market ; yet the foreign student also will find in it a safe and valuable help , and , in spite of ...
... character of sequel and conclusion to the larger work , -of fourth volume to the other three . It is designed , of course , for the home market ; yet the foreign student also will find in it a safe and valuable help , and , in spite of ...
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... character of the people has no symbol and no voice ; we cannot know them by speech and discourse , but only mere sight and outward observation of their manners and procedure . Now , if both sight and speech , if both travellers and ...
... character of the people has no symbol and no voice ; we cannot know them by speech and discourse , but only mere sight and outward observation of their manners and procedure . Now , if both sight and speech , if both travellers and ...
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... character , who mistook himself for a poet and the perfection of critics , and had skill to pass current during the greater part of his lite- rary life for such . On the strength of his Boileau and Batteux , he long reigned supreme ...
... character , who mistook himself for a poet and the perfection of critics , and had skill to pass current during the greater part of his lite- rary life for such . On the strength of his Boileau and Batteux , he long reigned supreme ...
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already altogether appears Atheism beauty become Burns called century cern character clear Corn-Law critics dark death deep Denis Diderot Diderot divine earnest Earth Encyclopédie endeavour existence eyes fair father Faust feeling Franz Horn FRASER'S MAGAZINE Friedrich Schlegel genius German German Literature gifts Goethe Goethe's hand heart Heldenbuch Helena Heyne highest History honour hope humour infinite intellectual James Boswell Johnson King labour less lies light literary Literature living look Ludwig Tieck man's matter means ment Mephistopheles mind moral nature ness never Nibelungen noble Novalis nowise once perhaps Philosopher Poem Poet poetic Poetry poor racter readers reckon Religion Richter Samuel Johnson Schiller seems sense Shakspeare singular sort soul speak spirit stand strange thee things thou thought tion true truth ture universal virtue Voltaire whole wise wonderful words worth writing
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หน้า 330 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
หน้า 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
หน้า 67 - Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
หน้า 105 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
หน้า 108 - 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.
หน้า 107 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
หน้า 328 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
หน้า 335 - 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 Fleet-ditch.
หน้า 97 - ... 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...
หน้า 107 - I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786 — 7, 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. 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,...