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... illustration of the difference between the philosophical and the regal look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie about his whole aspect , none of the fierceness of ...
... illustration of the difference between the philosophical and the regal look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie about his whole aspect , none of the fierceness of ...
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... illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able as books of reference , as bringing down the account 1 This is scarcely so , as the greater part of the reforms carried out by Brougham and Romilly had in Bentham their ...
... illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able as books of reference , as bringing down the account 1 This is scarcely so , as the greater part of the reforms carried out by Brougham and Romilly had in Bentham their ...
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... illustrations , by vigour and copiousness of style ; but where he has a prejudiced or unfair antagonist to contend with , he is just as likely to put weapons into his enemy's hands , as to wrest them from him ; and his object seems to ...
... illustrations , by vigour and copiousness of style ; but where he has a prejudiced or unfair antagonist to contend with , he is just as likely to put weapons into his enemy's hands , as to wrest them from him ; and his object seems to ...
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... illustration , though he has chosen to exercise his pen on writers most congenial to his own turn of mind , from their dry and caustic vein— Massinger and Ben Johnson . What he will make of Marlowe , it is difficult to guess . He has ...
... illustration , though he has chosen to exercise his pen on writers most congenial to his own turn of mind , from their dry and caustic vein— Massinger and Ben Johnson . What he will make of Marlowe , it is difficult to guess . He has ...
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... illustrations . His pen is never at a loss , never stands still , and would dazzle for this reason alone , like an eye that is ever in motion . Mr. Jeffrey is far from a flowery or affected writer ; he has few tropes or figures , still ...
... illustrations . His pen is never at a loss , never stands still , and would dazzle for this reason alone , like an eye that is ever in motion . Mr. Jeffrey is far from a flowery or affected writer ; he has few tropes or figures , still ...
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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.