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... mind may be depraved , degraded , or corrupted ? Is there a principle of classical criticism in any part of it , which is not just and defensible by the greatest masters of ancient and legitimate composition ? Is there any passage which ...
... mind may be depraved , degraded , or corrupted ? Is there a principle of classical criticism in any part of it , which is not just and defensible by the greatest masters of ancient and legitimate composition ? Is there any passage which ...
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... uberem fructibus rationis segetem necant , hominumque mentes assuefaciunt morbo , non liberant . " - " MEDICINE POTIUS TEMPUS EST , ' QUAM QUERELæ , " Ib . Pros , 2 . death and mental darkness , my mind for a space [ 19 ]
... uberem fructibus rationis segetem necant , hominumque mentes assuefaciunt morbo , non liberant . " - " MEDICINE POTIUS TEMPUS EST , ' QUAM QUERELæ , " Ib . Pros , 2 . death and mental darkness , my mind for a space [ 19 ]
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Thomas James Mathias. death and mental darkness , my mind for a space feels a convulsion , and suffers the nature of an insurrection . I look around me . I look to human actions , and to human principles . I consider again and again ...
Thomas James Mathias. death and mental darkness , my mind for a space feels a convulsion , and suffers the nature of an insurrection . I look around me . I look to human actions , and to human principles . I consider again and again ...
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... mind by no means uninformed , and a species of humour ; but it is exhausted by a repetition of the same manner , and nearly the same ideas , even to disgust . He has the power of rhyming lúdi crously , and is sometimes even gifted with ...
... mind by no means uninformed , and a species of humour ; but it is exhausted by a repetition of the same manner , and nearly the same ideas , even to disgust . He has the power of rhyming lúdi crously , and is sometimes even gifted with ...
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... mind . Every person should be well acquainted with the whole of Cervantes , of Le Sage's une- qualled and unrivalled Gil Blas , and of Tom Jones , ( that great comick Epick poem ) by Fielding . These perhaps are all , which it is ...
... mind . Every person should be well acquainted with the whole of Cervantes , of Le Sage's une- qualled and unrivalled Gil Blas , and of Tom Jones , ( that great comick Epick poem ) by Fielding . These perhaps are all , which it is ...
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Page 249 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 428 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 107 - The notes I could wish to be very large, in what relates to the persons concerned; for I have long observed that twenty miles from London nobody understands hints, initial letters, or town facts and passages; and in a few years not even those who live in London.
Page 189 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 238 - Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side; and shepherds make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors.
Page 250 - And, skill'd at whist, devotes the night to play : Then, while such honours bloom around his head, Shall he sit sadly by the sick man's bed, To raise the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel?
Page 433 - I approve highly of lord Chatham's idea of infusing a portion of new health into the constitution, to enable it to bear its infirmities (a brilliant expression, and full of intrinsic wisdom) other reasons occur in persuading me to adopt it.
Page 302 - He scorns, in apathy, to float or dream On listless Satisfaction's torpid stream, But dares, ALONE, in vent'rous bark to ride Down turbulent Delight's tempestuous tide. With thoughts...
Page 247 - I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths, which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas which it has got by the use of its natural faculties, viz. by sensation or reflection.
Page 249 - And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see ; and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.