Elements of CriticismConner & Cooke, 1833 - 504 páginas |
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... capital branch of every social passion . Sympathy invites a communication of joys and sorrows , hopes and fears : such exercise , soothing and satisfactory in itself , is necessarily productive of mutual good - will and affection . X ...
... capital branch of every social passion . Sympathy invites a communication of joys and sorrows , hopes and fears : such exercise , soothing and satisfactory in itself , is necessarily productive of mutual good - will and affection . X ...
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... capital figure in the mind , the bulk of them being transitory , and some extremely trivial . They are , however , the links that , by uniting our percep- tions into one connected chain , produce connection of action , because * Lib ...
... capital figure in the mind , the bulk of them being transitory , and some extremely trivial . They are , however , the links that , by uniting our percep- tions into one connected chain , produce connection of action , because * Lib ...
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... capital circumstance in human actions , is not visible , it requires reflection to discover their true character . I see one delivering a purse of money to another , but I can make nothing of that action , till I learn with what ...
... capital circumstance in human actions , is not visible , it requires reflection to discover their true character . I see one delivering a purse of money to another , but I can make nothing of that action , till I learn with what ...
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... capital picture in the possession of a prince , is seldom accompanied with desire ; but if such a picture be exposed to sale , desire of having or possessing is the natural consequence of a strong emotion . It is a truth verified by ...
... capital picture in the possession of a prince , is seldom accompanied with desire ; but if such a picture be exposed to sale , desire of having or possessing is the natural consequence of a strong emotion . It is a truth verified by ...
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... capital figure . It requires not much thought to discover the poisonous influence of such plays . A young man of figure , emancipated , at last , from the severity and restraint of a college education , repairs to the capital disposed ...
... capital figure . It requires not much thought to discover the poisonous influence of such plays . A young man of figure , emancipated , at last , from the severity and restraint of a college education , repairs to the capital disposed ...
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Página 143 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 371 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Página 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 405 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 226 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Página 388 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 377 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.