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... taste of our native Parliament . The study ought to teach you not to decry the labours , or to depreciate the genius of your countrymen . When you have studied the style and proportions of that 6 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MENT.
... taste of our native Parliament . The study ought to teach you not to decry the labours , or to depreciate the genius of your countrymen . When you have studied the style and proportions of that 6 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MENT.
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... genius , the liberality which combined to produce so magnificent a result . While we pause to admire the building , we may exclaim - Could these walls speak , what might we not expect to hear ? But - the passions , the hatreds , the ...
... genius , the liberality which combined to produce so magnificent a result . While we pause to admire the building , we may exclaim - Could these walls speak , what might we not expect to hear ? But - the passions , the hatreds , the ...
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... genius who since that hour have found a home within her walls could be here assembled , what a famous company would we not behold - of wits - scholars - authors - orators and states- men ! Like our country , the University had her early ...
... genius who since that hour have found a home within her walls could be here assembled , what a famous company would we not behold - of wits - scholars - authors - orators and states- men ! Like our country , the University had her early ...
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... genius which is struggling to develop untried powers . The republic of learned men levels all distinctions , and only acknowledges the supremacy of intellect and worth . Behold the infancy - the growth - the maturity of this great ...
... genius which is struggling to develop untried powers . The republic of learned men levels all distinctions , and only acknowledges the supremacy of intellect and worth . Behold the infancy - the growth - the maturity of this great ...
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... genius , to whom Charles confided the government of Ireland . It has been asserted by some that he ruled Ireland with a rod of iron , - the meaning of which seems to have been , that lords and commoners trembled in his presence . The ...
... genius , to whom Charles confided the government of Ireland . It has been asserted by some that he ruled Ireland with a rod of iron , - the meaning of which seems to have been , that lords and commoners trembled in his presence . The ...
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Page 297 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 309 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 286 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 312 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 275 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 290 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 310 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Page 296 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 287 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 310 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands ; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.