Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1848 - American periodicals |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 4
... tion . He says that he now is the only per- son living who knows all that actually passed at the time . His grey hairs tremble with emotion as he seeks to confirm his tes- timony by calling the attention of the court to the fact , that ...
... tion . He says that he now is the only per- son living who knows all that actually passed at the time . His grey hairs tremble with emotion as he seeks to confirm his tes- timony by calling the attention of the court to the fact , that ...
Page 7
... tion . Even in the very lowest estimate of these advantages , they secured to the stu- dent an exemption from the interruption of secular cares . The regularity of academi- cal hours cut off that dissipation of time and thought which ...
... tion . Even in the very lowest estimate of these advantages , they secured to the stu- dent an exemption from the interruption of secular cares . The regularity of academi- cal hours cut off that dissipation of time and thought which ...
Page 9
... tion as Chancellor took place just at the time . The unsuccessful candidate was un- luckily a member of Shelley's College- and one whom the Heads of the House ported by every means in their power . Shelley was enthusiastic for Lord ...
... tion as Chancellor took place just at the time . The unsuccessful candidate was un- luckily a member of Shelley's College- and one whom the Heads of the House ported by every means in their power . Shelley was enthusiastic for Lord ...
Page 24
... tion to the summit of power , his fall , and his death in exile . What measure of faith may have been yielded by Napoleon to these vaticinations ( supposing they were ever uttered ) , we have of course no means of knowing ; but from the ...
... tion to the summit of power , his fall , and his death in exile . What measure of faith may have been yielded by Napoleon to these vaticinations ( supposing they were ever uttered ) , we have of course no means of knowing ; but from the ...
Page 32
... tion as an artist , that the king would send in her hands ; that he was poor , helpless , the fa- him to Africa , to paint the storming of ther of ten children , whom it was not in his power even to educate , and for whose future ...
... tion as an artist , that the king would send in her hands ; that he was poor , helpless , the fa- him to Africa , to paint the storming of ther of ten children , whom it was not in his power even to educate , and for whose future ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration animal appear army Athenian Austria beautiful called cantons cause character death double stars doubt Duke England English existence eyes fact father feeling France Frederick French friends genius Girondins give habits hand heart Herschel honor human instinct Italy King King of Bavaria labor lady Lamartine land less letters light living Lola Montez look Lord Campbell matter means ment mind moral nature nebula never object observed once opinion Paris Parma party passed Pentonville person poem poet political possessed present Prince prisoners racter reader remarkable Revolution Robespierre Royal scarcely Schwyz seems Shelley Shelley's sion Sipunculas soldiers song soul spirit stars Switzerland tain things Thorwaldsen thought tion truth Unterwalden Whig whole words write wyllowe young
Popular passages
Page 77 - 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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 182 - The many men so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 127 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 63 - These dictates of reason men used to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.
Page 166 - To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Page 63 - The passions that incline men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them. And reason suggesteth convenient articles of peace upon which men may be drawn to agreement.
Page 20 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 73 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 156 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.