Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, Volume 1W. Blackwood & sons, 1864 |
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Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, Volumes 1-2 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização completa - 1864 |
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admiration ambition amid artist beauty better certainly character charm cival clairvoyance Clara common critics desire doubt drama Dugald Stewart effect essay exquisite faculties faith fame fancy feel fiction genius Gil Blas give Goethe habit happiness heart Henry honor human ical idea ideal imagination impressionable intellect interest knowledge Lady Gertrude less live look Lord man's mankind ment merit metaphysical mind misanthrope Molière moral motive power nature never noble novel object once opinion orator painter passion perhaps philosopher poem poet poetic poetry political popular praise prose Publius Syrus Pythias reason renown School for Scandal Scott seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Sir Percival Sir William Hamilton soul spirit sympathy Tartuffe taste thing Thornhill thought tion Tracey Tristram Shandy truth verse virtue Voltaire word writer young youth
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Página 234 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 339 - But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And "Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 427 - READING without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
Página 140 - And what have we to oppose to such a cloud of witnesses, but the absolute impossibility or miraculous nature of the events which they relate ? And this, surely, in the eyes of all reasonable people, will alone be regarded as a sufficient refutation.
Página 333 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Página 437 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 334 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 340 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 72 - I may so ill manage my money, that, with £5,000 a year, I purchase the worst evils of poverty, — terror and shame ; I may so well manage my money, that, with £ 100 a year, I purchase the best blessings of wealth, — safety and respect.
Página 380 - ... you shall pretend to be as bookish and contemplative as ever you were: all these courses have both their advantages and uses in themselves otherwise, and serve exceeding aptly to this purpose. Whereunto I add one expedient more, stronger than all the rest; and, for mine own confident opinion, void of any prejudice or danger of diminution of your greatness ; and that is, the bringing in of some martial man to be of the Council ; dealing directly with her Majesty in it, as for her service and your...