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... persons we have lived with from our infancy . His descriptions of scenery are not luxuriant and glowing pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic ...
... persons we have lived with from our infancy . His descriptions of scenery are not luxuriant and glowing pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic ...
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... persons of educa- tion , are the great works of antiquity incorporated with thought , that they arise involuntarily with every exercise of the faculty of taste , and insensibly recur to the cultivated mind , with all that it admires ...
... persons of educa- tion , are the great works of antiquity incorporated with thought , that they arise involuntarily with every exercise of the faculty of taste , and insensibly recur to the cultivated mind , with all that it admires ...
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... persons which forms the grand character- istic , the unequalled supremacy of the poem . Only think of what they are . Achilles , vehement alike in anger and in grief - wrathful , impetuous , overbearing- " the most terrible character ...
... persons which forms the grand character- istic , the unequalled supremacy of the poem . Only think of what they are . Achilles , vehement alike in anger and in grief - wrathful , impetuous , overbearing- " the most terrible character ...
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... persons of cultiva- ted taste , that it is hopeless to attempt to advance any- thing new on the beauties of ancient authors ; that every- thing that can be said on the subject has already been exhausted ; and that it is in the more ...
... persons of cultiva- ted taste , that it is hopeless to attempt to advance any- thing new on the beauties of ancient authors ; that every- thing that can be said on the subject has already been exhausted ; and that it is in the more ...
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... persons of ordinary perseverance or education . His mind was essentially philo- sophical ; and it is the philosophy of modern history , accordingly , which he has exerted himself so strenuously to unfold . He views society at a distance ...
... persons of ordinary perseverance or education . His mind was essentially philo- sophical ; and it is the philosophy of modern history , accordingly , which he has exerted himself so strenuously to unfold . He views society at a distance ...
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Page 520 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 12 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 233 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 28 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 60 - But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Page 384 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 28 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 637 - England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were...
Page 384 - But at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
Page 637 - Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims.