The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3E. Littell, 1823 |
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... leave nothing deficient , -so perfect as to outstrip all competition . But we did feel a wish to deposit our humble ... leaves strew'd o'er the ground , For tempests to play on , For cold worms to prey on , The shame of the garden that ...
... leave nothing deficient , -so perfect as to outstrip all competition . But we did feel a wish to deposit our humble ... leaves strew'd o'er the ground , For tempests to play on , For cold worms to prey on , The shame of the garden that ...
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... leave the high - roads of literature , and pry pry into every hole and corner in search of novelty , leaving no stone unturned in order to " elevate and surprise . ' " " A tavern- keeper might as well hope to trade in musty victuals and ...
... leave the high - roads of literature , and pry pry into every hole and corner in search of novelty , leaving no stone unturned in order to " elevate and surprise . ' " " A tavern- keeper might as well hope to trade in musty victuals and ...
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... leave the consultor in greater doubt than before Yet , strange to say , this bought advice is almost the only species that is implicitly followed . So much , indeed , does the virtue of all counsel lie in the fee , that the best opinion ...
... leave the consultor in greater doubt than before Yet , strange to say , this bought advice is almost the only species that is implicitly followed . So much , indeed , does the virtue of all counsel lie in the fee , that the best opinion ...
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... Providence that gave us a profession ( reader , we leave you to guess which ) that invests us with the divine right of inflicting our opinion on others secundum artem . But this is not enough : we must 38 Giving Advice .
... Providence that gave us a profession ( reader , we leave you to guess which ) that invests us with the divine right of inflicting our opinion on others secundum artem . But this is not enough : we must 38 Giving Advice .
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... leave of the old school , without feelings of regret and alarm . If a young man of birth and fortune obtains a seat in the House of Commons , and wishes , without entangling himself in the tram- mels of party , to make use of his ...
... leave of the old school , without feelings of regret and alarm . If a young man of birth and fortune obtains a seat in the House of Commons , and wishes , without entangling himself in the tram- mels of party , to make use of his ...
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Page 549 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 549 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 250 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 557 - Of breaking honesty:) horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ? Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight ? and all eyes blind With the pin and web,' but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ? Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Page 561 - ... with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident ! LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams.
Page 561 - In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs — locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced — racked into a dread armistice...
Page 560 - Duncan,' and adequately to expound 'the deep damnation of his taking off,' this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature, ie the divine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man, - was gone, vanished, extinct; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place. And, as this effect is marvellously accomplished in the dialogues and soliloquies themselves, so it is finally consummated by...
Page 560 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Page 27 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time — when the table is full.
Page 417 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.