History of English Literature, Volume 1Chatto & Windus, 1871 - Literary Criticism |
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... follow him from his farm and team , to the general's tent and to the Protector's throne , in his transmutation and develop- ment , in his pricks of conscience and his political conclusions , until the machinery of his mind and actions ...
... follow him from his farm and team , to the general's tent and to the Protector's throne , in his transmutation and develop- ment , in his pricks of conscience and his political conclusions , until the machinery of his mind and actions ...
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... follow but obscurely the Aryan peoples from their common fatherland to their final countries , we can yet assert that the profound differences which are manifest between the German races on the one side , and the Greek and Latin on the ...
... follow but obscurely the Aryan peoples from their common fatherland to their final countries , we can yet assert that the profound differences which are manifest between the German races on the one side , and the Greek and Latin on the ...
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... follows . Beside the permanent impulse and the given surroundings , there is the ac- quired momentum . When the national character and surrounding circumstances operate , it is not upon a tabula rasa , but on a ground on which marks are ...
... follows . Beside the permanent impulse and the given surroundings , there is the ac- quired momentum . When the national character and surrounding circumstances operate , it is not upon a tabula rasa , but on a ground on which marks are ...
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... follows has always the first for its condition , and grows from its death . And if now you consider no longer a brief epoch , as our own time , but one of those wide intervals which embrace one or more centuries , like the middle ages ...
... follows has always the first for its condition , and grows from its death . And if now you consider no longer a brief epoch , as our own time , but one of those wide intervals which embrace one or more centuries , like the middle ages ...
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... follows barbarity . At Bristol , at the time of the Conquest , as we are told by an historian of the time , it was the custom to buy men and women in all parts of England , and to carry them to Ireland for sale . The buyers usually made ...
... follows barbarity . At Bristol , at the time of the Conquest , as we are told by an historian of the time , it was the custom to buy men and women in all parts of England , and to carry them to Ireland for sale . The buyers usually made ...
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Page 216 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 339 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 430 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 450 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 337 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 218 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 337 - Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee ! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Page 308 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 384 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Page 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.