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... Speaking - Magnificent Writing - The Twofold Education of the Taste : -The Com- panionship of Great Writers - LANDOR - Imaginary Conversa- tion of Essex and Spenser - FOSTER and MACAULAY - Illus- trations from JOHN FOSTER . - Foster's ...
... Speaking - Magnificent Writing - The Twofold Education of the Taste : -The Com- panionship of Great Writers - LANDOR - Imaginary Conversa- tion of Essex and Spenser - FOSTER and MACAULAY - Illus- trations from JOHN FOSTER . - Foster's ...
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... speak out upon the whole of life , the differ- ence between men and men is , for the most part , a difference of education ; the mind and the body are the residence of strong faculties , which exist in many uneducated and therefore ...
... speak out upon the whole of life , the differ- ence between men and men is , for the most part , a difference of education ; the mind and the body are the residence of strong faculties , which exist in many uneducated and therefore ...
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... speak so well , with all these books , " but they both had the same opportunity of acqui- ring a library , or rather , the wondering spectator had a better opportunity than the other , who sprang from poverty , and from the tailor's ...
... speak so well , with all these books , " but they both had the same opportunity of acqui- ring a library , or rather , the wondering spectator had a better opportunity than the other , who sprang from poverty , and from the tailor's ...
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... speak to your soul . One of the most illustrious and princely English thinkers of our age , SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE , has said , " An hour of solitude in sincere and earnest prayer , or the conflict with , and conquest over a sinful ...
... speak to your soul . One of the most illustrious and princely English thinkers of our age , SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE , has said , " An hour of solitude in sincere and earnest prayer , or the conflict with , and conquest over a sinful ...
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... speaking , be called so . Let us take , for instance , the act of tossing up a shilling to see on which side it will fall . In this case , if we were aware of the exact weight of the coin , and the force employed to project it into the ...
... speaking , be called so . Let us take , for instance , the act of tossing up a shilling to see on which side it will fall . In this case , if we were aware of the exact weight of the coin , and the force employed to project it into the ...
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Page 197 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 192 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Page 232 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Page 160 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 223 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Page 81 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 81 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
Page 193 - ... gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 81 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 34 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.