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... never until now in this country . Their repub- lication was often contemplated , but as often postponed ; and their Author died before any preparation had been made for carrying the proposed work into execution . In the present Edition ...
... never until now in this country . Their repub- lication was often contemplated , but as often postponed ; and their Author died before any preparation had been made for carrying the proposed work into execution . In the present Edition ...
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... never more heartily called forth than when in the company of his nephew , these circumstances must of themselves have pre- vented the Author of the Noctes from trenching too closely on reality in his effigiation of Timothy Tickler . Mr ...
... never more heartily called forth than when in the company of his nephew , these circumstances must of themselves have pre- vented the Author of the Noctes from trenching too closely on reality in his effigiation of Timothy Tickler . Mr ...
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... never differed in one single sentiment in our lives , excepting as to the comparative merits of some strathspey reels . 66 But the pleasantest part of our fellowship is yet to describe . At a certain period of the night our entertainer ...
... never differed in one single sentiment in our lives , excepting as to the comparative merits of some strathspey reels . 66 But the pleasantest part of our fellowship is yet to describe . At a certain period of the night our entertainer ...
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... never deserts him ; in his most festive abandonment his morality is never at fault . He is intensely individual , and also essentially national . Hence he is real - hence he is universal . His sen- timents are broad and catholic ...
... never deserts him ; in his most festive abandonment his morality is never at fault . He is intensely individual , and also essentially national . Hence he is real - hence he is universal . His sen- timents are broad and catholic ...
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... never have been , and probably never will be , equalled . As the last specimen , then , on a large scale of the national language of Scotland which the world is ever likely to see , I have preserved with scrupulous care the original ...
... never have been , and probably never will be , equalled . As the last specimen , then , on a large scale of the national language of Scotland which the world is ever likely to see , I have preserved with scrupulous care the original ...
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Página 354 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Página 46 - Disuse in him forgetfulness had wrought, In Latin he composed his history ; A garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught With matter of delight, and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great empress- queen.
Página 18 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moon-light scene in the Iliad.
Página 18 - Pope still retain their hold upon public estimation,— nay, there is not a passage of descriptive poetry which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers. Strange to think of an enthusiast, as may have been the case with thousands, reciting those verses under the cope of a moon-light sky, without having his raptures in the least disturbed by a suspicion of their absurdity.
Página 195 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for Her ' Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe"; But rather nerve the spirit that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So, when a few fleet severing years have flown, She'll meet thee at heaven's gate — and lead thee on ! Weep not for Her.