Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 6Phillips, Sampson,, 1854 - 750 pages |
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... give the same explanation of the sweetness of sugar ; for no one , we suppose , will dispute , that though it be very true that sugar is agreeable because it is sweet , it would be manifestly prepos- terous to say that it was sweet ...
... give the same explanation of the sweetness of sugar ; for no one , we suppose , will dispute , that though it be very true that sugar is agreeable because it is sweet , it would be manifestly prepos- terous to say that it was sweet ...
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... give a short account of some of the theories themselves . The most ancient of which it seems neces- sary to take any notice , is that which may be traced in the Dialogues of Plato - though we are very far from pretending that it is ...
... give a short account of some of the theories themselves . The most ancient of which it seems neces- sary to take any notice , is that which may be traced in the Dialogues of Plato - though we are very far from pretending that it is ...
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... give rise to such trains of thought , and to such pro - agrees with Mr. Alison in holding the most tracted meditations ; but we cannot possibly important , and , indeed , the only considerable admit that their existence is necessary to ...
... give rise to such trains of thought , and to such pro - agrees with Mr. Alison in holding the most tracted meditations ; but we cannot possibly important , and , indeed , the only considerable admit that their existence is necessary to ...
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... give the name of beauty , for example , to every thing that in- terests or pleases us through the channel of sight , including in this category the mere im- pulse of light that is pleasant to the organ , and the presentment of objects ...
... give the name of beauty , for example , to every thing that in- terests or pleases us through the channel of sight , including in this category the mere im- pulse of light that is pleasant to the organ , and the presentment of objects ...
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... give an instance or two of this derivation also . We may now take an example a little less plain and elementary . The most beautiful object in nature , perhaps , is the countenance of a young and beautiful woman ; -and we are apt at ...
... give an instance or two of this derivation also . We may now take an example a little less plain and elementary . The most beautiful object in nature , perhaps , is the countenance of a young and beautiful woman ; -and we are apt at ...
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Page 309 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 309 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 336 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 161 - Mr. Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kindhearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and handsome. He has a pair of very good eyes in his head, which not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and difficult purposes of a senator, he has a third also, which he wore suspended by a riband from his buttonhole.
Page 359 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the latest minstrel sung.
Page 328 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 309 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 350 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Page 110 - A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.
Page 379 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there!