Contributions to the Edinburgh ReviewD. Appleton, 1864 - 762 pages |
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... Merits by which these were , to a certain extent at least , redeemed or atoned for . If I might be permitted farther ... merit which I am conscious that my efforts were most con- stantly directed , is , that I have , more uniformly and ...
... Merits by which these were , to a certain extent at least , redeemed or atoned for . If I might be permitted farther ... merit which I am conscious that my efforts were most con- stantly directed , is , that I have , more uniformly and ...
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... merit are distinguished . Addison published several ingenious papers in The Spectator , on the pleasures of the imagination , and was the first , we believe , who referred them to the specific sources of beauty , sublimity , and novelty ...
... merit are distinguished . Addison published several ingenious papers in The Spectator , on the pleasures of the imagination , and was the first , we believe , who referred them to the specific sources of beauty , sublimity , and novelty ...
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... merit , and have among them disclosed almost all the truth that is to be known on the subject ; though , as it seems to us , with some little admixture of error , from which it will not , however , be difficult to sepa WHEN we say that ...
... merit , and have among them disclosed almost all the truth that is to be known on the subject ; though , as it seems to us , with some little admixture of error , from which it will not , however , be difficult to sepa WHEN we say that ...
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... merit . At all events , and Hitherto we have spoken of the beauty of external objects only . But the whole diffi- culty of the theory consists in its application to them . If that be once adjusted , the beauty of immaterial objects can ...
... merit . At all events , and Hitherto we have spoken of the beauty of external objects only . But the whole diffi- culty of the theory consists in its application to them . If that be once adjusted , the beauty of immaterial objects can ...
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... merit . They make scarcely mans ; for it was that which fell in with their any reflections ; and are marvellously indiffer - national habits and dispositions . ent as to vice or virtue . They record the most atrocious and most heroic ...
... merit . They make scarcely mans ; for it was that which fell in with their any reflections ; and are marvellously indiffer - national habits and dispositions . ent as to vice or virtue . They record the most atrocious and most heroic ...
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Page 307 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 335 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 307 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 347 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 309 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 388 - When tides were neap, and, in the sultry day, Through the tall bounding mud-banks made their way, Which on each side rose swelling, and below The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide...
Page 358 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 308 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep, then, the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
Page 335 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo...
Page 371 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.