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... feeling that noblesse oblige , and do not result merely in a placid self- satisfaction with our own mediocrity , as if great- ness , like righteousness , could be imputed . We can pardon it even in conquered races , like the Welsh and ...
... feeling that noblesse oblige , and do not result merely in a placid self- satisfaction with our own mediocrity , as if great- ness , like righteousness , could be imputed . We can pardon it even in conquered races , like the Welsh and ...
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... feeling , and not from that conviction of the higher reason which alone can give force and per- manence to words . His letters show him sub- ject , like others of like temperament , to fits of " hypochondriacal melancholy , " and the ...
... feeling , and not from that conviction of the higher reason which alone can give force and per- manence to words . His letters show him sub- ject , like others of like temperament , to fits of " hypochondriacal melancholy , " and the ...
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... feeling was strongly in favor of the victims of their severity . But Davenport gallantly captures these Quaker guns , and turns them against the enemy himself . " Sir , the hurt that befell so many , by their own rashness , at the Draw ...
... feeling was strongly in favor of the victims of their severity . But Davenport gallantly captures these Quaker guns , and turns them against the enemy himself . " Sir , the hurt that befell so many , by their own rashness , at the Draw ...
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... feeling has followed the same causes in their case as in that of the Highlanders , they have become romantic in proportion as they ceased to be dangerous . ― As exhibitions of the writer's character , no letters in the collection have ...
... feeling has followed the same causes in their case as in that of the Highlanders , they have become romantic in proportion as they ceased to be dangerous . ― As exhibitions of the writer's character , no letters in the collection have ...
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James Russell Lowell. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing darkness quite beneath its subject , till the reader feels.
James Russell Lowell. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing darkness quite beneath its subject , till the reader feels.
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Страница 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Страница 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Страница 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Страница 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Страница 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Страница 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Страница 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Страница 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.