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... man of the world , a scholar bred , and a most acute and 1 Compare this Character with the Essay On the Diversions of Purley in the Literary Remains , 1836 , i . , 333.—ED. ཀ powerful logician . He was also a wit , and.
... man of the world , a scholar bred , and a most acute and 1 Compare this Character with the Essay On the Diversions of Purley in the Literary Remains , 1836 , i . , 333.—ED. ཀ powerful logician . He was also a wit , and.
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... the noble poet rather than on account of any- thing which he had personally done.-ED. 2 This Essay was written just before Lord Byron's death . [ Sir Walter died in 1832. ] He holds no communion with his kind , but stands.
... the noble poet rather than on account of any- thing which he had personally done.-ED. 2 This Essay was written just before Lord Byron's death . [ Sir Walter died in 1832. ] He holds no communion with his kind , but stands.
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... Essays and Reviews . There is rather a want of originality and even of impetus : but there is no want of playful or biting satire , of ingenuity , of casuistry , of learning and of information . He is " full of wise saws and modern ( as ...
... Essays and Reviews . There is rather a want of originality and even of impetus : but there is no want of playful or biting satire , of ingenuity , of casuistry , of learning and of information . He is " full of wise saws and modern ( as ...
Page 177
... Essay on the Principles of Human Action ; and the way in which he spoke of that dry , tough , metaphysical choke - pear , showed the dearth of intellectual intercourse in which he lived , and the craving in his mind after those studies ...
... Essay on the Principles of Human Action ; and the way in which he spoke of that dry , tough , metaphysical choke - pear , showed the dearth of intellectual intercourse in which he lived , and the craving in his mind after those studies ...
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... Essay on the Price of Corn , introduced some remarks on the writings of Malthus . Compare the papers inserted on this subject in Hazlitt's Political Essays , 1819.-ED. putation , and leave off without knowing what it all.
... Essay on the Price of Corn , introduced some remarks on the writings of Malthus . Compare the papers inserted on this subject in Hazlitt's Political Essays , 1819.-ED. putation , and leave off without knowing what it all.
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.