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Página 118
Wherever they have not annihilated despotism , they have more or less shaken it
; — they end by yielding to constitutional monarchies , which have borrowed from
republics the greater part of their institutions . At the present epoch , the people ...
Wherever they have not annihilated despotism , they have more or less shaken it
; — they end by yielding to constitutional monarchies , which have borrowed from
republics the greater part of their institutions . At the present epoch , the people ...
Página 493
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues , the better we like him .
Timoleon ' s victories are the best victories ; which ran and flowed like Homer ' s
verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful
and ...
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues , the better we like him .
Timoleon ' s victories are the best victories ; which ran and flowed like Homer ' s
verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful
and ...
Página 258
1 - with a greater soul - am I less free ? The beast is born ; yet scarcely is his skin
Mark ' d with fine spots , as if bedecked with stars , ( Thanks to the learned pencil
that has marked them , ) Than fierce and wild , taught by necessity The need of ...
1 - with a greater soul - am I less free ? The beast is born ; yet scarcely is his skin
Mark ' d with fine spots , as if bedecked with stars , ( Thanks to the learned pencil
that has marked them , ) Than fierce and wild , taught by necessity The need of ...
Página 296
Our ancestors were no less devoted to their religion - no less rigorous in their
notions of propriety - no less violent in their modes of reprobation - but more so
than our . selves . That was not bad in their eyes , which they allowed to be ; nor
can ...
Our ancestors were no less devoted to their religion - no less rigorous in their
notions of propriety - no less violent in their modes of reprobation - but more so
than our . selves . That was not bad in their eyes , which they allowed to be ; nor
can ...
Página 517
Can anything less than Providence , acting through the medium of human
sympathy , dispel his delusions and reconcile him to life ? Lord RoxMORE enters
; he has been charmed by the poet ' s works , and he comes to benefit and
encourage ...
Can anything less than Providence , acting through the medium of human
sympathy , dispel his delusions and reconcile him to life ? Lord RoxMORE enters
; he has been charmed by the poet ' s works , and he comes to benefit and
encourage ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Monthly magazine |
| Autor | Monthly literary register |
| Publicação | 1841 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 20 Out 2006 |
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