Biographical Essays: Essays, Biographical and Critical; Or, Studies of CharacterPhillips, Sampson, 1857 - 475 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admiration adventure American artist associated beauty Berkeley brave career character characteristic charm Chateaubriand Chesterfield declared delight devoted domestic earnest elements eloquent England English enthusiasm evidence excited experience expression faith fame feeling French French Revolution friends gave genial genius genuine George Berkeley gifted give Governeur Morris grace habits heart honor human idea imagination individual influence inspired instinct intellectual intelligence interest invention Italian Italy Jenny Lind Kentucky labor less letters literary literature Lord Madame de Staël manner memory ment mind moral native nature ness never noble observation opinion original patriotic philosopher poet poetic political popular principles realize recognized regard remarkable rendered rience Roger Williams Sardinia scene seems sense sentiment Silvio Pellico social society soul Southey spirit Sterne style success Sydney Smith sympathy taste Theodore Körner thought tion tone traits Tristram Shandy triumph truth uncon writings youth Zriny
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Página 410 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 36 - Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief.
Página 398 - Cato was not so much the wonder of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what the author once said of another may the most properly in the world be applied to him on this occasion : " ' Envy itself is dumb — in wonder lost ; And factions strive who shall applaud him most.
Página 249 - Devotione, ie a sort of religious opera), they make fireworks almost every week out of devotion ; the streets are often hung with arras out of devotion ; and (what is still more strange) the ladies invite gentlemen to their houses, and treat them with music and sweetmeats, out of devotion : in a word, were it not for this devotion of its inhabitants, Naples would have little else to recommend it beside the air and situation.
Página 399 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Página 251 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Página 289 - ... their poor dying mother to beg their bread at• his door, and to crave, as if it were an alms, what he is bound under hand and seal, besides the most sacred promises, to supply them with ; himself, at the same time, living in a profusion of plenty. It is too much for me.
Página 289 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth ; was born in London, and for many years was a hose-factor in Freeman's Yard in Cornhill, and now is...
Página 189 - The ministers got together and declared any one worthy of banishment, who should obstinately assert, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy...
Página 472 - I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind.