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... stands iu the trenches , the peasant hedges and ditches , or the mechanic plies his ceaseless task , because the one ... stand ! " But we doubt the durability of our projector's patch- work . Will our convert to the great principle of ...
... stands iu the trenches , the peasant hedges and ditches , or the mechanic plies his ceaseless task , because the one ... stand ! " But we doubt the durability of our projector's patch- work . Will our convert to the great principle of ...
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... ( as some seemed inclined to suppose ) soar up to the God , and quit the ground of human frailty , yet , stripped wholly of it , he sinks at once into the brute . If it cannot stand alone in its naked simplicity , William Godwin . 31.
... ( as some seemed inclined to suppose ) soar up to the God , and quit the ground of human frailty , yet , stripped wholly of it , he sinks at once into the brute . If it cannot stand alone in its naked simplicity , William Godwin . 31.
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Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. If it cannot stand alone in its naked simplicity , but requires other props to buttress it up , or ornaments to set it off ; yet without it the moral structure would fall ...
Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. If it cannot stand alone in its naked simplicity , but requires other props to buttress it up , or ornaments to set it off ; yet without it the moral structure would fall ...
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... standing pool of criticism , which splashed some persons with mud , but which gave a motion to the ' In the edition of 1825 , the text reads , " He lost this [ manner ] with the first blush and awkwardness of popularity . " — ED ...
... standing pool of criticism , which splashed some persons with mud , but which gave a motion to the ' In the edition of 1825 , the text reads , " He lost this [ manner ] with the first blush and awkwardness of popularity . " — ED ...
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... standing fertile , subtle , expansive , " quick , forgetive , apprehensive , " beyond all living precedent , few traces of it will perhaps remain . He lends himself to all impressions alike ; he gives up his mind and liberty of thought ...
... standing fertile , subtle , expansive , " quick , forgetive , apprehensive , " beyond all living precedent , few traces of it will perhaps remain . He lends himself to all impressions alike ; he gives up his mind and liberty of thought ...
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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.