Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 - English literature |
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Page 2455
... . He is not expected to become bail or surety for any one . No man troubleth him with questioning his religion or politics . He is the only free man in the uni- verse . The Mendicants of this great city were so many of CHARLES LAMB 2455.
... . He is not expected to become bail or surety for any one . No man troubleth him with questioning his religion or politics . He is the only free man in the uni- verse . The Mendicants of this great city were so many of CHARLES LAMB 2455.
Page 2458
... verse inscribed it , to attest , In long and lasting union to attest , The virtues of the Beggar and his Dog . " These dim eyes have in vain explored for some months past a well - known figure or part of the figure , of a man , who used ...
... verse inscribed it , to attest , In long and lasting union to attest , The virtues of the Beggar and his Dog . " These dim eyes have in vain explored for some months past a well - known figure or part of the figure , of a man , who used ...
Page 2473
... verses smack of the rough magnanimity of the old English vein ? Do they not fortify like a cordial ; enlarging the heart , and productive of sweet blood , and generous spirits , in the concoction ? Where be those puling fears of death ...
... verses smack of the rough magnanimity of the old English vein ? Do they not fortify like a cordial ; enlarging the heart , and productive of sweet blood , and generous spirits , in the concoction ? Where be those puling fears of death ...
Page 2485
... verse and in prose as had been won by no other Englishman but Milton . " That Landor was a man of the most highly developed intellect is unquestionable , and but for a most singular contradiction he might have been the greatest force in ...
... verse and in prose as had been won by no other Englishman but Milton . " That Landor was a man of the most highly developed intellect is unquestionable , and but for a most singular contradiction he might have been the greatest force in ...
Page 2490
... verse of the Old French school , though he is an attractive prose writer on many themes . He writes old English with great purity and clearness , as he has illustrated in his translations from Homer . His " Ballads and Verses Vain " and ...
... verse of the Old French school , though he is an attractive prose writer on many themes . He writes old English with great purity and clearness , as he has illustrated in his translations from Homer . His " Ballads and Verses Vain " and ...
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Page 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Page 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Page 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Page 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Page 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...