 ... out the most wretched of lives, a life without hope in the most miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 45edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...Mr. Burke than he has to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...Mr. Burke than he has to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratic hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...Burke than he has been to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." Now there is an element of truth in Paine's charge, but there is distortion also. To say that Burke... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1915 - 266 pages
...Burke than he has been to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." Now there is an element of truth in Paine's charge, but there is distortion also. To say that Burke... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1915 - 266 pages
...Burke than he has been to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." Now there is an element of truth in Paine's charge, but there is distortion also. To say that Burke... | |
 | John Eleazer Remsburg - 1917 - 250 pages
...than he has been to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratic hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 492 pages
...to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy semblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Paine wrote the first part of The Age of Reason (1794) in prison, out of his memory ; the second part,... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 482 pages
...to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy semblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Paine wrote the first part of The Age of Season (1794) in prison, out of his memory ; the second part,... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1921 - 860 pages
...Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird".18 Less familiar is a beautiful saying of his, "to believe that God created a plurality of world's... | |
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