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To the Greek the want of Printing was a deprivation perhaps much less severe
than we are apt to imagine : for him the vivid dialogue and brilliant sword - play '
of intellect , listened to and mingled with beneath the Parian columns of the Porch
...
To the Greek the want of Printing was a deprivation perhaps much less severe
than we are apt to imagine : for him the vivid dialogue and brilliant sword - play '
of intellect , listened to and mingled with beneath the Parian columns of the Porch
...
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Ho - Fi heard all the tongues in the neighbourhood eloquent in praise of the
beauty of So - Sli ; but he heard them likewise no less voluble in condemnation of
her whimsicality and waywardness . Fresh stories were every day told of her ...
Ho - Fi heard all the tongues in the neighbourhood eloquent in praise of the
beauty of So - Sli ; but he heard them likewise no less voluble in condemnation of
her whimsicality and waywardness . Fresh stories were every day told of her ...
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We shall be always as willing to open in these pages a list where duties to the
sex , no less than our sense of right , are equally engaged to allow the Countess
Pepoli to plead in favour of a class of women , of whom her virtues no less than
her ...
We shall be always as willing to open in these pages a list where duties to the
sex , no less than our sense of right , are equally engaged to allow the Countess
Pepoli to plead in favour of a class of women , of whom her virtues no less than
her ...
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During the whole ceremony the sound of the most animated general
conversation never ceased for a single moment ; and altogether , 1 must say ,
that anything less impressive , in the way of example , I never beheld . In the first
place , the ...
During the whole ceremony the sound of the most animated general
conversation never ceased for a single moment ; and altogether , 1 must say ,
that anything less impressive , in the way of example , I never beheld . In the first
place , the ...
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Come along , my • Jord , ' said Dick , looking back ; “ the more you look , the less '
you ' ll like it . ' The late Lord Forester neglected the precaution , and found
himself in the middle of a pond . “ Hold your tongue , ' was his reproof to a ...
Come along , my • Jord , ' said Dick , looking back ; “ the more you look , the less '
you ' ll like it . ' The late Lord Forester neglected the precaution , and found
himself in the middle of a pond . “ Hold your tongue , ' was his reproof to a ...
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Página 201 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 6 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 202 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 202 - Above them all the arch-angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge...
Página 205 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 202 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Página 433 - Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him...
Página 200 - Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle, And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle.
Página 536 - Only Dick Christian,';}; answers Lord Forester, ' and it is nothing new to him.' ' But he'll be drowned,' exclaims Lord Kinnaird. ' I shouldn't wonder,
Página 6 - ... and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and ablest judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island.