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... perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye , to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees ) Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house ...
... perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye , to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees ) Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house ...
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... down and worship with idiot fear and wonder at the thing themselves have made , and which , without that fear and wonder , would in itself be nothing . Mr. Bentham , perhaps , over - rates the importance 6 The Spirit of the Age .
... down and worship with idiot fear and wonder at the thing themselves have made , and which , without that fear and wonder , would in itself be nothing . Mr. Bentham , perhaps , over - rates the importance 6 The Spirit of the Age .
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Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. Mr. Bentham , perhaps , over - rates the importance of his own theories . He has been heard to say ( without any appearance of pride or affectation ) that " he should like ...
Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. Mr. Bentham , perhaps , over - rates the importance of his own theories . He has been heard to say ( without any appearance of pride or affectation ) that " he should like ...
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... Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made suffi- cient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human ...
... Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made suffi- cient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human ...
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... Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as anyone . What should Mr. Bentham , sitting at ease in his arm - chair , composing his mind before he begins to write by a prelude on the organ , and looking out at a ...
... Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as anyone . What should Mr. Bentham , sitting at ease in his arm - chair , composing his mind before he begins to write by a prelude on the organ , and looking out at a ...
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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.