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... - fying , and happy influences of the church , whose superstitions had become a byword , and whose sove- reignty already yielded to military power . We can , indeed , imagine no greater contrast than that which exists 22 THE NOVELIST .
... - fying , and happy influences of the church , whose superstitions had become a byword , and whose sove- reignty already yielded to military power . We can , indeed , imagine no greater contrast than that which exists 22 THE NOVELIST .
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... influence was essentially modified ; when haughty lords still kept their armed retainers , and could , with certain precautions , violently outrage individual rights with impunity ; when the sanctions of the Church yet exercised an ...
... influence was essentially modified ; when haughty lords still kept their armed retainers , and could , with certain precautions , violently outrage individual rights with impunity ; when the sanctions of the Church yet exercised an ...
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... influence ; in fact that he was what she , at once , declared him to be to her friends- " as agreeable a man as any in the king- dom ; " and what she felt him to be in her own heart , a master of the art of love . " The familiarity of ...
... influence ; in fact that he was what she , at once , declared him to be to her friends- " as agreeable a man as any in the king- dom ; " and what she felt him to be in her own heart , a master of the art of love . " The familiarity of ...
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... influence both the form and spirit of subsequent literature ; and popular read- ing now bears its traces in the careful exposition of events , as in the Annual Register , and the minute analysis of the spirit of the age by such writers ...
... influence both the form and spirit of subsequent literature ; and popular read- ing now bears its traces in the careful exposition of events , as in the Annual Register , and the minute analysis of the spirit of the age by such writers ...
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... influence upon the land , and vegetation as connected with the air . He sought for great central truths , and estimated par- ticular facts according as they led to these . Hence both the range and the minuteness of his observa- tion ...
... influence upon the land , and vegetation as connected with the air . He sought for great central truths , and estimated par- ticular facts according as they led to these . Hence both the range and the minuteness of his observa- tion ...
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Page 190 - Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments...
Page 190 - 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. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 190 - 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.
Page 174 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Page 150 - tis but a sound; a name of air; A minute's storm, or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians, for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments Might stagger manhood ; here the pain is past, Ere sensibly 'tis felt.
Page 276 - The time is out of joint : — 0 cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Page 150 - What danger's half so great as thy revolt? Thou art a faithless sister, else thou know'st Malice, or any treachery beside, Would stoop to my bent brows: why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
Page 238 - I have often thought, that a comment upon the capacities of the players would very much improve the delight that way, and impart it to those who otherwise have no sense of it.
Page 149 - Tis true, you guess aright ; sit up and listen, With shame and passion now I must confess, Since first mine eyes beheld you, in my heart You have been only king. If there can be A violence in love, then I have felt That tyranny : be record to my soul The justice which I for this folly fear.
Page 72 - Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed till some one wave Out of the multitudinous mass, extends The empire of the whole, some feet perhaps, Over the strip of sand which could confine Its fellows so long time : thenceforth the rest, Even to the meanest, hurry in at once...