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... effect or rather the cause of the circumstances in which he wrote , can consent even to palliate . ( 4 ) The old comedy rose to its perfection in Aristophanes , and in him also it died with the freedom of Greece . Then arose a species ...
... effect or rather the cause of the circumstances in which he wrote , can consent even to palliate . ( 4 ) The old comedy rose to its perfection in Aristophanes , and in him also it died with the freedom of Greece . Then arose a species ...
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... effect on their impressible minds , which they do not on the minds of adults . The child , if strongly impressed , does not indeed positively think the picture to be the reality ; but yet he does not think the con- trary . As Sir George ...
... effect on their impressible minds , which they do not on the minds of adults . The child , if strongly impressed , does not indeed positively think the picture to be the reality ; but yet he does not think the con- trary . As Sir George ...
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... effects of contrast , as in Lear and the Fool ; and especially this , that the true language of passion becomes sufficiently elevated by your having previously heard , in the same piece , the lighter conversa- tion of men under no ...
... effects of contrast , as in Lear and the Fool ; and especially this , that the true language of passion becomes sufficiently elevated by your having previously heard , in the same piece , the lighter conversa- tion of men under no ...
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... effect the strength of all other human desires . We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power , or of the hands . For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty - five - hun- dred ...
... effect the strength of all other human desires . We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power , or of the hands . For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty - five - hun- dred ...
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... effects , and unfold all the causes , of this disposition upon the moral , intellectual , and even physical character of a people , with its influences on domestic life and in- dividual deportment . A good document upon this subject ...
... effects , and unfold all the causes , of this disposition upon the moral , intellectual , and even physical character of a people , with its influences on domestic life and in- dividual deportment . A good document upon this subject ...
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Page 120 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 81 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 139 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 127 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 164 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Page 22 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 41 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Page 363 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Page 173 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move and trees to speak ; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.