History of English Literature, Volumen1Chatto & Windus, 1871 |
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... action des circonstances et qui se transforme en vertu de sa nature , aussi bien que par l'effet de son passé ; mais on y découvre aussi une personne qui dure ; l'adulte ne fait qu ' achever l'adolescent et l'enfant ; la vivante figure ...
... action des circonstances et qui se transforme en vertu de sa nature , aussi bien que par l'effet de son passé ; mais on y découvre aussi une personne qui dure ; l'adulte ne fait qu ' achever l'adolescent et l'enfant ; la vivante figure ...
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... action which we see involves an infinite association of reasonings , emotions , sensations new and old , which have served to bring it to light , and which , like great rocks deep - seated in the ground , find in it their end and their ...
... action which we see involves an infinite association of reasonings , emotions , sensations new and old , which have served to bring it to light , and which , like great rocks deep - seated in the ground , find in it their end and their ...
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... actions and its works ; how behind the old general , in place of a vulgar , hypocritical schemer , we recover a man travailing with the troubling reveries of a melancholic imagination , but with definite instincts and faculties ...
... actions and its works ; how behind the old general , in place of a vulgar , hypocritical schemer , we recover a man travailing with the troubling reveries of a melancholic imagination , but with definite instincts and faculties ...
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... actions , her irony so ready to hit upon a weakness , her finesse so practised in the discrimination of shades of thought ; —all have worked the same soil , and one begins to understand that there is no region of history where it is not ...
... actions , her irony so ready to hit upon a weakness , her finesse so practised in the discrimination of shades of thought ; —all have worked the same soil , and one begins to understand that there is no region of history where it is not ...
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... actions , dispositions of every kind by which man is kept face to face with God ; it is this which has en- throned doctrine and grace , lowered the clergy , transformed the sacra- ments , suppressed various practices , and changed ...
... actions , dispositions of every kind by which man is kept face to face with God ; it is this which has en- throned doctrine and grace , lowered the clergy , transformed the sacra- ments , suppressed various practices , and changed ...
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Página 216 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 339 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 430 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 450 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 337 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Página 218 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 337 - Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee ! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Página 308 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Página 384 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Página 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.