Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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... interests is never listened to except by his own party or class . Neither does the SATURDAY REVIEW affect that impartiality which consists in an in- difference to all principles , -on the contrary , its writers , most of whom are known ...
... interests is never listened to except by his own party or class . Neither does the SATURDAY REVIEW affect that impartiality which consists in an in- difference to all principles , -on the contrary , its writers , most of whom are known ...
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... interest is paramount and supreme . Admirable , no doubt , is the Ecole des Maris ; interesting to the student of dramatic literature are the points of contact and of difference which it offers when contrasted with the Adelphi of the ...
... interest is paramount and supreme . Admirable , no doubt , is the Ecole des Maris ; interesting to the student of dramatic literature are the points of contact and of difference which it offers when contrasted with the Adelphi of the ...
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... would cease to be interesting , which would be dull . Mark , too , the quiet , unpretending manner in which Molière makes use of Sganarelle to promote the interests of true religion by giving here and there a rap on the knuckles to.
... would cease to be interesting , which would be dull . Mark , too , the quiet , unpretending manner in which Molière makes use of Sganarelle to promote the interests of true religion by giving here and there a rap on the knuckles to.
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... interest , we think it may be well to elucidate our meaning . Plato tells us that misanthropy comes over a man in this wise : -You place implicit confidence in some one ; you believe him to be , every inch of him , a good man , a ...
... interest , we think it may be well to elucidate our meaning . Plato tells us that misanthropy comes over a man in this wise : -You place implicit confidence in some one ; you believe him to be , every inch of him , a good man , a ...
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... interest . It is not sufficient , however , to do homage to the merits of this wonderful play as a work of art . We must not suffer this to divert our attention from what we may call its historical aspect . If we were requested to name ...
... interest . It is not sufficient , however , to do homage to the merits of this wonderful play as a work of art . We must not suffer this to divert our attention from what we may call its historical aspect . If we were requested to name ...
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Page 41 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 248 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 262 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Page 226 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 179 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 279 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
Page 246 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 254 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 178 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er? "No — shall the good want health, the good want power?" Add health and power, and every earthly thing, "Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
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