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... look up for light and guidance . Could we see nothing but distant unapproachable impecca- bility , we might well sink prostrate in the hopelessness of emulation and the weariness of despair . Is it not then , when all seems blank and ...
... look up for light and guidance . Could we see nothing but distant unapproachable impecca- bility , we might well sink prostrate in the hopelessness of emulation and the weariness of despair . Is it not then , when all seems blank and ...
Page 81
... look very little into the career of Wallace to justify that encomium . That he should have leaped into the supreme power in Scotland at a single bound , that he should have overthrown the overwhelming armaments of England with the very ...
... look very little into the career of Wallace to justify that encomium . That he should have leaped into the supreme power in Scotland at a single bound , that he should have overthrown the overwhelming armaments of England with the very ...
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... look for encouragement in labour , for for- titude inadversity , for the example of a sublime Christianity , with constant hope and constant encouragement , to the pure , the splendid , the dauntless figure of William Ewart Gladstone ...
... look for encouragement in labour , for for- titude inadversity , for the example of a sublime Christianity , with constant hope and constant encouragement , to the pure , the splendid , the dauntless figure of William Ewart Gladstone ...
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... look around me and see this vast audience , I am irresistibly reminded of the most dismal moment that can occur in a man's life - the moment when he is about to deliver a Rectorial Address . Happily , there are one or two considerations ...
... look around me and see this vast audience , I am irresistibly reminded of the most dismal moment that can occur in a man's life - the moment when he is about to deliver a Rectorial Address . Happily , there are one or two considerations ...
Page 185
... look , then , to my colleagues of the Associated Societies not merely as going forth to their several professions and callings in life , but as going forth as potential Empire - builders , or at least as Empire - maintainers . You will ...
... look , then , to my colleagues of the Associated Societies not merely as going forth to their several professions and callings in life , but as going forth as potential Empire - builders , or at least as Empire - maintainers . You will ...
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Page 92 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, 1 got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Page 297 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Page 42 - WHY am I loth to leave this earthly scene ? Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ? Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; Some gleams -of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Is it departing pangs my soul alarms ; Or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode ? For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms ; I tremble to approach an angry God, And justly smart beneath his sin-avenging rod. Fain would I say, Forgive my foul offence...
Page 59 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 55 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 155 - ... affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 14 - ... her, — and the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing, — did draw tears from me, and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes, almost as often as I looked at the description ; they may again.
Page 54 - Many others, perhaps, may have ascended to prouder heights in the region of Parnassus, but none certainly ever outshone Burns in the charms, the sorcery, I would almost call it, of fascinating conversation, the spontaneous eloquence of social argument, or the unstudied poignancy of brilliant repartee...
Page 56 - I recollect once," said Dugald Stewart, speaking of Burns, " he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they contained.