New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 112E. W. Allen, 1858 |
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Seite 266 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 221 - The toils of law (what dark insidious men Have cumbrous added to perplex the truth, And lengthen simple justice into trade), How glorious were the day that saw these broke, And every man within the reach of right...
Seite 323 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 157 - Is this the nature Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue The shot of accident, nor dart of chance. Could neither graze nor pierce?
Seite 415 - I have come to a determination, when in my power, never to suffer an attack to be made by night upon an enemy who is prepared and strongly posted, and whose posts have not been reconnoitred by daylight.
Seite 342 - The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the broad back the stubborn ridges roll'd, Where yet the title stands in tarnish'd gold...
Seite 342 - ... talk of the manifold talker, glancing lightly from topic to topic, suggesting deep things in a jest, unfolding unanswerable arguments in an absurd illustration, expounding nothing, completing nothing, exhausting nothing, yet really suggesting the lessons of a wider experience, embodying the results of a more finely tested philosophy, passing with a more...
Seite 342 - Look at a railway stall ; you see books of every colour — blue, yellow, crimson, 'ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted,' on every subject, in every style, of every opinion, with every conceivable difference, celestial or sublunary, maleficent, beneficent — but all small. People take their literature in morsels, as they take sandwiches on a journey. The volumes at least, you can see clearly, are not intended to be everlasting. It may be all very well for a pure essence like poetry to be immortal...
Seite 221 - Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Seite 105 - Creinieux, an uncourtly deputy of the extreme Left, whom the Moniteur of this morning announces as a member of the provisional government, and on the other side the door was closed by a strong legitimist, whose name I will not mention, who bowing to the king, his majesty thanked him, and the other replied : "Pas du tout, il ya dixsept ans que j'attends ce jour.