Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseCarey & Hart, 1835 - 204 Seiten |
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Seite 15 - Abortive as the first-born bloom of spring Nipt with the lagging rear of winter's frost." " I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death." " So ! farewell hope ; but with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
Seite 15 - dilectus lapis," will smile to hear Milton's practice appealed to ! Yet what can he say to the following specimens, taken at random while I am now writing ? " Am I not sung and proverb'd for a fool In every street ? Do they not say how well Are come upon him his deserts"!
Seite 18 - a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. " The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction
Seite 39 - Alas! unconscious of the kindred earth, That faintly echoed to the voice of mirth." Take, too, a whole stanza from the "Annus Mirabilis." chiefly for the sake of one little word— " As those who unripe veins in mines explore, On the rich bed again the -warm turf lay, (Till
Seite 15 - say how well Are come upon him his deserts"!" " Here rather let me drudge and earn my bread." " Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake My sudden rage to tear thee joint by joint. At distance I forgive thee—go with that.
Seite 109 - I agree with you, however, that a common opinion intimated by Gibbon, in the following passage, is not true. " I desisted from the pursuit of mathematics before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence; which
Seite 202 - virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues/* BY OLIVER MOORE.
Seite 202 - In Two Volumes, 12mo. THE STAF F-0 FFICE R. OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. A TALE OF REAL LIFE. " The web of life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; oar virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues/*
Seite 86 - It is evident," says Mr. Locke, " how men love to deceive, and be deceived; since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation."
Seite 103 - stands, turns, limitations, and exceptions, and several other thoughts of the mind, for which we have either none, or very deficient names, are diligently to be studied." A greater philosopher still has said, " Verba vestigia mentis." What, then, must be his deserts who enables us to understand, and to employ them, by giving, as it were, their whole biography