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... fact and in suggestion , are the two which bear the name of the late Cock- burn . Rich enough in this respect was his ' Life of Jeffrey , ' but richer still are these posthumous ' Memorials of His Time . " From the NORTH BRITISH REVIEW ...
... fact and in suggestion , are the two which bear the name of the late Cock- burn . Rich enough in this respect was his ' Life of Jeffrey , ' but richer still are these posthumous ' Memorials of His Time . " From the NORTH BRITISH REVIEW ...
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... facts , so remark - contemplated , and that nothing will be admitted able and so important as these undoubtedly are , should not have inspired some one with the idea of collecting the materials for a history of our Literary , Artistic ...
... facts , so remark - contemplated , and that nothing will be admitted able and so important as these undoubtedly are , should not have inspired some one with the idea of collecting the materials for a history of our Literary , Artistic ...
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... fact , and the same difficulty of mastering , is observable in the case of Goethe , and other writers of various and rich fertility of genius . We do not mean , of course , that a great genius is always hard to be laid hold of - Walter ...
... fact , and the same difficulty of mastering , is observable in the case of Goethe , and other writers of various and rich fertility of genius . We do not mean , of course , that a great genius is always hard to be laid hold of - Walter ...
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... fact doing a thing in the region of ideas which is equivalent to passing a farthing for a guinea ; an act whereby A good example of this will be found in Lord Jeffrey's article BEAUTY , in the Encyclopædia Britannica , where the author ...
... fact doing a thing in the region of ideas which is equivalent to passing a farthing for a guinea ; an act whereby A good example of this will be found in Lord Jeffrey's article BEAUTY , in the Encyclopædia Britannica , where the author ...
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... fact , in many places , carpeted with a very delicate soft moss , on which the foot of the most dainty lady might tread with luxury . So far we have been talking of Plato only as a man , and of his critics and commentators , and ...
... fact , in many places , carpeted with a very delicate soft moss , on which the foot of the most dainty lady might tread with luxury . So far we have been talking of Plato only as a man , and of his critics and commentators , and ...
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Page 137 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 16 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 99 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder.
Page 237 - And he has plunged in wi' a' his band, And safely swam them thro' the stream. He turned him on the other side, And at Lord Scroope his glove flung he — ' If ye like na my visit in merry England, In fair Scotland come visit me...
Page 168 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Page 140 - With the fervor of thy lute: Well may the stars be mute! Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky.
Page 215 - I'll make a garland of thy hair, Shall bind my heart for evermair, Until the day I die. O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, 'Haste and come to me!
Page 235 - Is Keeper here on the Scottish side? "And have they e'en ta'en him, Kinmont Willie, Withouten either dread or fear ? And forgotten that the bauld Buccleuch Can back a steed, or shake a spear?
Page 235 - He has call'd him forty Marchmen bauld. I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, call'd The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
Page 111 - Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By the mass and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale? Very like a whale.