The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pages |
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... seems to be no evidence . Gutenberg's priority is disputed by those who deem Lawrence Costar of Haarlem the real inventor of the art . According to a tradition , which seems not to be traced beyond the middle of the sixteenth century ...
... seems to be no evidence . Gutenberg's priority is disputed by those who deem Lawrence Costar of Haarlem the real inventor of the art . According to a tradition , which seems not to be traced beyond the middle of the sixteenth century ...
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... seems more strictly to intimate that we owe to him the great improvement in letter casting , namely , the punches of engraved steel , by which the matrices or molds are struck , and without which , independent of the economy of labor ...
... seems more strictly to intimate that we owe to him the great improvement in letter casting , namely , the punches of engraved steel , by which the matrices or molds are struck , and without which , independent of the economy of labor ...
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... seem a necessary consequence , it is the earliest loose sheet that is known to be extant . It is said to be in the type of what is called the Bamberg Bible , which we shall soon have to mention . Two editions of Letters of indulgence ...
... seem a necessary consequence , it is the earliest loose sheet that is known to be extant . It is said to be in the type of what is called the Bamberg Bible , which we shall soon have to mention . Two editions of Letters of indulgence ...
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... seems hard to reconcile with the story that Fust sold his impressions at Paris , as late as 1463 , for manuscripts . Another Psalter was printed by Fust and Schæffer with simi- lar characters in 1459 ; and , in the same year , " Durandi ...
... seems hard to reconcile with the story that Fust sold his impressions at Paris , as late as 1463 , for manuscripts . Another Psalter was printed by Fust and Schæffer with simi- lar characters in 1459 ; and , in the same year , " Durandi ...
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... seems necessary to mention them in this period , as they mark an important epoch in English literature . Wyatt and Surrey , for we may best name them in the order of time , rather than of civil or poetical rank , have had recently the ...
... seems necessary to mention them in this period , as they mark an important epoch in English literature . Wyatt and Surrey , for we may best name them in the order of time , rather than of civil or poetical rank , have had recently the ...
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Page 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Page 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Page 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Page 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Page 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Page 2402 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Page 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.