Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 páginas |
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... thoughts to make him happy , and food and raiment must be given him , or he dies . Far from being the most enviable , his way of life is , perhaps , among the many modes by which an ardent mind endeavours to express its activity , the ...
... thoughts to make him happy , and food and raiment must be given him , or he dies . Far from being the most enviable , his way of life is , perhaps , among the many modes by which an ardent mind endeavours to express its activity , the ...
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... thought and the activity of their happier brethren . Pity that from all their conquests , so rich in benefit to others , themselves should reap so little . But it is vain to murmur . They are volunteers in this cause ; they weighed the ...
... thought and the activity of their happier brethren . Pity that from all their conquests , so rich in benefit to others , themselves should reap so little . But it is vain to murmur . They are volunteers in this cause ; they weighed the ...
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... thought of him ; it was of no importance at all what the leaders of fashion thought . The impertinence of a cross or a ribbon , offered him in his old age by " him they call Dizzy , " he could quietly , not ungraciously , put aside ...
... thought of him ; it was of no importance at all what the leaders of fashion thought . The impertinence of a cross or a ribbon , offered him in his old age by " him they call Dizzy , " he could quietly , not ungraciously , put aside ...
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... thought and style , but is elaborate , polished , and formal , and has neither the freedom of movement nor the impetuous force that were to become so characteristic of the author . Published originally in the London Magazine , it ...
... thought and style , but is elaborate , polished , and formal , and has neither the freedom of movement nor the impetuous force that were to become so characteristic of the author . Published originally in the London Magazine , it ...
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... thoughts or ideas , and these are discoverable in their purest form in the book composed by him amid the wilds of Galloway — the world- renowned Sartor Resartus . I look upon this as one of the very few books produced in Great Britain ...
... thoughts or ideas , and these are discoverable in their purest form in the book composed by him amid the wilds of Galloway — the world- renowned Sartor Resartus . I look upon this as one of the very few books produced in Great Britain ...
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Página 296 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Página 340 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Página 286 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Página 303 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Página 296 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Página 286 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Página 303 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Página 145 - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Página 284 - Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Página 222 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.