Louis Fourteenth, and the Writers of His Age: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered (in French) to a Select Audience in New YorkJ. P. Jewett, 1855 - 413 páginas |
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... humanity as a unit , which in- cludes the entire history of civilization , and which is supremely important to us . It was not so , however , at the beginning ; and well for us that it was not . The Constitution of the Republic was ...
... humanity as a unit , which in- cludes the entire history of civilization , and which is supremely important to us . It was not so , however , at the beginning ; and well for us that it was not . The Constitution of the Republic was ...
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... human affairs . The internal history of France , since the days of Louis XIV . , has , on the whole , greatly abated that degree of admiration which had been inspired by his reign ; or rather , by the early part of that reign . Yet it ...
... human affairs . The internal history of France , since the days of Louis XIV . , has , on the whole , greatly abated that degree of admiration which had been inspired by his reign ; or rather , by the early part of that reign . Yet it ...
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... human element in the seventeenth century , after Richelieu's will had ceased to act on earthly events . He invites us to imagine ourselves transported back in time , to the year 1638 ; and over in space , to the capital of France . We ...
... human element in the seventeenth century , after Richelieu's will had ceased to act on earthly events . He invites us to imagine ourselves transported back in time , to the year 1638 ; and over in space , to the capital of France . We ...
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... human mind , the people , nay , God himself , has been silently working in the opposite direction , towards freedom of thought and boldness of speculation ; towards an emancipation of the human intellect . from royal and ghostly tyranny ...
... human mind , the people , nay , God himself , has been silently working in the opposite direction , towards freedom of thought and boldness of speculation ; towards an emancipation of the human intellect . from royal and ghostly tyranny ...
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... human thought and speech . The very language felt the new impulse , and obtained from it new elements of strength . Not least among the writers of this period was John Calvin , who composed his memorable Institutes , when only twenty ...
... human thought and speech . The very language felt the new impulse , and obtained from it new elements of strength . Not least among the writers of this period was John Calvin , who composed his memorable Institutes , when only twenty ...
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Página 268 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Página 374 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Página 257 - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Página 257 - But by pursuing closely one argument, which is not cloyed with many turns, the French have gained more liberty for verse, in which they write ; they have leisure to dwell on a subject which deserves it ; and to represent the passions (which we have acknowledged to be the poet's work), without being hurried from one thing to another...
Página 255 - Romantic poetry, on the other hand, is the expression of the secret attraction to a chaos which lies concealed in the very bosom of the ordered...
Página 268 - To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
Página 255 - ... its fragmentary appearance, approaches more to the secret of the universe. For Conception can only comprise each object separately, but nothing in truth can ever exist separately and by itself; Feeling perceives all in all at one and the same time.
Página 61 - the great commandment on which hang all the law and the prophets'; they strike at the very heart of piety; they rob it of the spirit that giveth life; they hold that to love God is not necessary to salvation; and go so far as to maintain that 'this dispensation from loving God is the privilege which Jesus Christ has introduced into the world!
Página 254 - The ancient art and poetry rigorously separate things which are dissimilar; the romantic delights in indissoluble mixtures; all contrarieties: nature and art, poetry and prose, seriousness and mirth, recollection and anticipation, spirituality and sensuality, terrestrial and celestial, life and death, are by it blended together in the most intimate combination.
Página 398 - Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?