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... human life and manners : there is an analogous charm de- rived from the ftudy of even the lowest type of character , the flight but fufficient links of cause and consequence in the most unimportant chain of incidents , the mingled ...
... human life and manners : there is an analogous charm de- rived from the ftudy of even the lowest type of character , the flight but fufficient links of cause and consequence in the most unimportant chain of incidents , the mingled ...
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... human life . And , befides these indications of a great ideal , typical of his fpecies , and ever and anon strug- gling to the furface through the wrecks of fome awful foregone calamity , there is in every man a separate individuality ...
... human life . And , befides these indications of a great ideal , typical of his fpecies , and ever and anon strug- gling to the furface through the wrecks of fome awful foregone calamity , there is in every man a separate individuality ...
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... human circumftances infure , in every cafe , a real , novel , and peculiar intereft ; that as no two individual faces are alike , so neither are any two individual characters , and still less any two individual careers . Again : if ...
... human circumftances infure , in every cafe , a real , novel , and peculiar intereft ; that as no two individual faces are alike , so neither are any two individual characters , and still less any two individual careers . Again : if ...
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... human manners and affairs , note down in detail the experiences and obferva- tions of his life : and , in particular , let him por- tray the characteristic features of those to whom he once ftood related , or with whom he has been led ...
... human manners and affairs , note down in detail the experiences and obferva- tions of his life : and , in particular , let him por- tray the characteristic features of those to whom he once ftood related , or with whom he has been led ...
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... human ftory , reality would prove enchaining . If the internal truth of the former approve it to be genuine , we have this added fatisfaction in the latter , that we know it to be authentic . Eldorado , or Adventures in the Path of ...
... human ftory , reality would prove enchaining . If the internal truth of the former approve it to be genuine , we have this added fatisfaction in the latter , that we know it to be authentic . Eldorado , or Adventures in the Path of ...
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admiration againſt almoſt alſo anſwer artiſtic Balder beauty becauſe Bofwell Carlyle Carlyle's caſe cauſe character characteriſtic claſs compariſon compofition confideration confift courſe criticiſm defire diftinct Divine Engliſh eſpecially eſtimate exerciſe expreffion facred fame feems fentiment fhall fimple firſt fome fomething ftill ftriking ftyle fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient furniſh genius Gilfillan greatneſs heart higheſt himſelf hiſtory human illuftrated inſpiration inſtance intereft itſelf Johnſon juſt laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs literary maſter meaſure merit Milton mind moft moral moſt mufic muſt nature obfervation occafion ourſelves paffage paffion Paradife perſonal philofopher pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poet's poetic poetry pofition Pollok praiſe preſent profe promiſe purpoſe reader reaſon reſpect reſult ſay ſcene ſchool ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow Silvio Pellico ſome ſpace ſpeak ſphere ſpirit ſtill ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuggeſted tafte taſte themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion truth uſe verſe whoſe wiſdom
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Page 162 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 82 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 64 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed...
Page 82 - Stood visible, among these pines his voice I heard, here with him at this fountain talk'd...
Page 143 - Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 250 - ... in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey, And the nightingale thought, '/ I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.
Page 64 - Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With lofs of Eden, till one greater Man...
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Page 82 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...
Page 131 - The word this man spoke has been the lifeguidance now of one hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever.