Theological Essays and Other Papers: Secession from the church of Scotland. Toilette of the Hebrew lady. Milton. Charlemagne. Modern Greece. Lord Carlisle on PopeTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 |
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Page 239 - But ask not to what doctors I apply ; Sworn to no master, of no sect am I : As drives the storm, at any door I knock, And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke...
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Page 250 - With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 104 - If the man had failed, the power would have failed. In that mode of power which he wielded the function was exhausted in the man, the species was identified with the individual, the poetry was incarnated in the poet.
Page 250 - On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Page 110 - Michael Angelo has introduced the pagan deities in connection with the hierarchy of the Christian heavens. Now, it is very true that one great man cannot palliate the error of another great man, by repeating the same error himself. But, though it cannot avail as an excuse, such a conformity of ideas serves as a summons to a much more vigilant examination of the case than might else be instituted. One man might err from inadvertency; but that two, and both men trained to habits of constant meditation,...
Page 204 - Athenian capital, though now raised to the rank of metropolis for universal Greece. IV. There are, however, mixed monuments, not artificial in their origin, but which gradually came to act upon the feelings as such from their use, and habitual connexion with human purposes. Such for instance is the Acro-Corinthus, of which Mr Mure says — that it " is by far the most striking object that I have ever seen, either abroad or at home. Neither the Acropolis of Athens, nor the Larissa of Argos, nor even...
Page 255 - We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow.