The Student: A Series of Papers, Volumen2Saunders and Otley, 1835 - 205 páginas |
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... perhaps , the youth and the attractions to engage affection . Once we might have chosen out of the world- now the time is past . Who shall love us in our sear and yellow leaf , as in that time , when we had most the qualities that win ...
... perhaps , the youth and the attractions to engage affection . Once we might have chosen out of the world- now the time is past . Who shall love us in our sear and yellow leaf , as in that time , when we had most the qualities that win ...
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... perhaps , than he might in after - life , be- cause it is newer to him . Perhaps , too , the moral eye resembles the physical - by custom familiarizes itself with delusion , and inverts , mechanically , the objects presented to it ...
... perhaps , than he might in after - life , be- cause it is newer to him . Perhaps , too , the moral eye resembles the physical - by custom familiarizes itself with delusion , and inverts , mechanically , the objects presented to it ...
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... perhaps the greatest master of that art which makes " words like sharp swords , " that our age has produced . * And every one will recollect the sagacious sneer of Gibbon . fame . Compare Scott and Shelley , the two most 44 THE ...
... perhaps the greatest master of that art which makes " words like sharp swords , " that our age has produced . * And every one will recollect the sagacious sneer of Gibbon . fame . Compare Scott and Shelley , the two most 44 THE ...
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... Perhaps indeed Humour is an essential requisite in the flesh - and - blood delineation of character ; and a quick perception of the Ridiculous is necessary to VOL . I. D the accurate insight into the True . We can better IN MEN AND ...
... Perhaps indeed Humour is an essential requisite in the flesh - and - blood delineation of character ; and a quick perception of the Ridiculous is necessary to VOL . I. D the accurate insight into the True . We can better IN MEN AND ...
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... perhaps , also , something of a constitution of mind naturally sanguine and elastic , to trans- mute into golden associations the baser ores of our knowledge of the world . Deceit and Dis- appointment are but sorry stimulants to the ...
... perhaps , also , something of a constitution of mind naturally sanguine and elastic , to trans- mute into golden associations the baser ores of our knowledge of the world . Deceit and Dis- appointment are but sorry stimulants to the ...
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Página 349 - Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. ' He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Página 151 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 9 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Página 53 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Página 313 - To reason, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man), Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom. There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine. But what are ye? THOU, who didst put to flight Primeval Silence, when the morning...
Página 159 - And therefore it was most aptly said by one of Plato's school, That the sense of man carrieth a resemblance with the sun, which (as we see} openeth and revealeth all the terrestrial globe; but then again it obscureth and concealeth the stars and celestial globe: so doth the sense discover natural things, but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine.
Página 102 - Solon, Zaleucus, Charondas, and thence to all the Roman edicts and tables with their Justinian, and so down to the Saxon and common laws of England, and the statutes.
Página 320 - O majestic Night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder born ! And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train...
Página 102 - Roman wont; first on foot, then as their age permits, on horseback, to all the art of cavalry ; that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership, in all the skill of embattling, marching, encamping, fortifying, besieging, and battering, with all the helps of ancient and modern stratagems, tactics, and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country.
Página 302 - This world a hunting is, The prey poor man, the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are Lust, sickness, envy, care, Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe. Now, if by chance we fly Of these the eager chase, Old age with stealing pace Casts up his nets, and there we panting die.