The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 6 |
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Page 2046
... young man of brilliant promise , died at the age of twenty - one , and was immortalized by Tennyson's " In Memoriam . " In 1834 Hallam published " The Remains in Prose and Verse of Arthur Henry Hal- lam , with a Sketch of His Life ...
... young man of brilliant promise , died at the age of twenty - one , and was immortalized by Tennyson's " In Memoriam . " In 1834 Hallam published " The Remains in Prose and Verse of Arthur Henry Hal- lam , with a Sketch of His Life ...
Page 2056
... young couple are said to be married as soon as the lady has changed her name , the truth is that the real mar- riage is a long slow intergrowth , like that of two trees planted quite close together in the forest . The subject of ...
... young couple are said to be married as soon as the lady has changed her name , the truth is that the real mar- riage is a long slow intergrowth , like that of two trees planted quite close together in the forest . The subject of ...
Page 2074
... young and genial ; but if we take into account the numberless glances and gleams whereby wit lightens our every - day life , I hardly know what power ministers so bountifully to the innocent pleasures of mankind . Surely , too , it ...
... young and genial ; but if we take into account the numberless glances and gleams whereby wit lightens our every - day life , I hardly know what power ministers so bountifully to the innocent pleasures of mankind . Surely , too , it ...
Page 2077
... young man enjoyed the friendship of the Prince of Orange and the Queen of Bohemia . His strong Republican ideas did not lose him the con- fidence of Charles I. , and he was one of the friends who accompanied the deposed king to the ...
... young man enjoyed the friendship of the Prince of Orange and the Queen of Bohemia . His strong Republican ideas did not lose him the con- fidence of Charles I. , and he was one of the friends who accompanied the deposed king to the ...
Page 2087
... young man at college , that a youth , in no spirit of paradox , but out of plenary conviction , un- dertook to maintain before a body of serious students , the as- tounding proposition that the invention of printing had been one of the ...
... young man at college , that a youth , in no spirit of paradox , but out of plenary conviction , un- dertook to maintain before a body of serious students , the as- tounding proposition that the invention of printing had been one of the ...
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Page 2334 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 2269 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Page 2197 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Page 2432 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Page 2392 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 2392 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 2390 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Page 2386 - ... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, ts or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 2360 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Page 2197 - ... over all the world, but there are many places where they live so now. For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families the concord whereof...