The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, 第 3 卷W. Pickering, 1837 |
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... respect to the more dangerous passions have favoured , then , indeed , must the noble spirit of the country be wasted away ; then would our institutions be deplorable , and the education prevalent among us utterly vile and debasing ...
... respect to the more dangerous passions have favoured , then , indeed , must the noble spirit of the country be wasted away ; then would our institutions be deplorable , and the education prevalent among us utterly vile and debasing ...
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... me forward . In such a mixed assemblage as our age presents , with its genuine merit and its large overbalance of alloy , I may boldly ask into what errors , either with respect to person or thing , INTRODUCTION . 43.
... me forward . In such a mixed assemblage as our age presents , with its genuine merit and its large overbalance of alloy , I may boldly ask into what errors , either with respect to person or thing , INTRODUCTION . 43.
第 44 頁
... respect to person or thing , could a young man fall , who had sincerely entered upon the course of moral discipline which has been recommended , and to which the condition of youth , it has been proved , is favourable ? His opinions ...
... respect to person or thing , could a young man fall , who had sincerely entered upon the course of moral discipline which has been recommended , and to which the condition of youth , it has been proved , is favourable ? His opinions ...
第 48 頁
... respect to other living men , nay even to the mighty spirits of past times , there may be asso- ciated with such weakness a want of modesty and humility . Insensibly may steal in presumption and a habit of sitting in judgment in cases ...
... respect to other living men , nay even to the mighty spirits of past times , there may be asso- ciated with such weakness a want of modesty and humility . Insensibly may steal in presumption and a habit of sitting in judgment in cases ...
第 55 頁
... respects sharply contrasted with the products of the French revolution , which was scarcely more characterized by its sanguinary and sensual abo- minations than ( to borrow the words of an eminent living poet ) by A dreary want at once ...
... respects sharply contrasted with the products of the French revolution , which was scarcely more characterized by its sanguinary and sensual abo- minations than ( to borrow the words of an eminent living poet ) by A dreary want at once ...
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第 198 頁 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
第 121 頁 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
第 119 頁 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
第 197 頁 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
第 253 頁 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
第 142 頁 - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
第 184 頁 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
第 197 頁 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
第 121 頁 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
第 247 頁 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...