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... whole , And now is almost grown the habit of my soul . " LETTER V. Dec. 13th , 1819 . MY DEAR SIR , Accept my affectionate thanks ; and , in mine , con- ceive those of my housemates included . Would to Heaven I had more than barren ...
... whole , And now is almost grown the habit of my soul . " LETTER V. Dec. 13th , 1819 . MY DEAR SIR , Accept my affectionate thanks ; and , in mine , con- ceive those of my housemates included . Would to Heaven I had more than barren ...
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... whole life to make easy to the meanest capacity , shall not perish for want of a fair trial . That Cobbett himself commits the same injustice towards others , I well know ; but this proceeds in his case from an impa- tience of any ...
... whole life to make easy to the meanest capacity , shall not perish for want of a fair trial . That Cobbett himself commits the same injustice towards others , I well know ; but this proceeds in his case from an impa- tience of any ...
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... whole of him , you will love him in spite of all oddities , and even faults - nay , had almost said , for them — at least , admire that under his visitations they are so few and of so little impor- tance . Thank God , his circumstances ...
... whole of him , you will love him in spite of all oddities , and even faults - nay , had almost said , for them — at least , admire that under his visitations they are so few and of so little impor- tance . Thank God , his circumstances ...
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... whole secret of the writer's latter days . In thought , action , opinion , he always sought for harmony and agreement , and frequently created a harmony of his own . Hence his dislike of , and distaste for , the new sciences , so called ...
... whole secret of the writer's latter days . In thought , action , opinion , he always sought for harmony and agreement , and frequently created a harmony of his own . Hence his dislike of , and distaste for , the new sciences , so called ...
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... whole plays have been acted at each house , and those by excellent comedians , would have yielded a striking instance and illustration of my position . But I chose an example in literature , as more in point for the subject of my ...
... whole plays have been acted at each house , and those by excellent comedians , would have yielded a striking instance and illustration of my position . But I chose an example in literature , as more in point for the subject of my ...
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Page 95 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 95 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 95 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind...
Page 74 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude.
Page 106 - Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams Feeling himself, his own low self the whole ; When he by sacred sympathy might make The whole one self! self, that no alien knows! Self, far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self, spreading still ! Oblivious of its own, Yet all of all possessing...
Page 165 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities; and all my love is towards individuals. For instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers; but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one. It is so with physicians. I will not speak of my own trade, soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 145 - Fie, fie upon her ! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 170 - I am under no apprehensions that a glut of study and retirement should cast me back into the hurry of the world ; on the contrary, the single regret which I ever feel, is, that I fell so late into this course of life ; my philosophy grows confirmed by habit, and if you and I meet again, I will extort this approbation from you, Jam non consilio bonus, sed more eo perductus, ut non tantum recte facere possim, sed nisi recte facere non passim.
Page 32 - My gentle-hearted Charles! when the last rook Beat its straight path along the dusky air Homewards, I blest it!
Page 22 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.