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... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle : individual interests and ...
... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle : individual interests and ...
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... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
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... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
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... writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
... writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
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... writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall ... writer's integrity . Seldom , however , was he guilty of such bad taste , as in the allusion to Trajan's Column , and ...
... writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall ... writer's integrity . Seldom , however , was he guilty of such bad taste , as in the allusion to Trajan's Column , and ...
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Page 343 - me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else beside learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus
Page 102 - finally postponed till too late, for Kuster never lived to complete it Methinks the shade of the lexicographer might arise and say, with the Miltonic Satan:— " What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be?" Kuster engaged in an edition of
Page 319 - neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. Anne Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." This letter was first published in the periodical called "The World," in 1753. The paper in which it appears is imputed to Horace Walpole, 2o who has introduced Lady Anne
Page 299 - substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." Her governess was Mistress Taylor; her tutor, that excellent man— "the well
Page 62 - his were not the deepest scar ; And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art: When twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chace To Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed bands, Did clap their
Page 299 - once, for I am afraid that some one of my readers may not have a copy of Wordsworth's poems in his pocket, or even on his parlour window. Written in London, 1802. "O friend, I know not which way I must look For comfort, being
Page 469 - spell has power; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity.
Page 272 - Even at this sight My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine It shall be stony. York not our old men spares, No more will I their babes: tears virginal . Shall be to me even as the dew to fire; And beauty that the tyrant
Page 62 - And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits