The Works of Sir Henry Taylor, Issue 73, Volume 5H. S. King & Company, 1878 |
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... truth that liberty has no interest in equality . In France , where , with great activity of the other faculties , the popular imagination is small , weak , and at the same time , highly excitable , -for , in the mind as in the body ...
... truth that liberty has no interest in equality . In France , where , with great activity of the other faculties , the popular imagination is small , weak , and at the same time , highly excitable , -for , in the mind as in the body ...
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... Will it be said , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? -a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
... Will it be said , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? -a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... truth , those who refer to the ' Idiot Boy , ' as a characteristic specimen of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry , after having really read his works , might be equally expected , after reading those of Lord Bacon , to quote , as characteristic ...
... truth , those who refer to the ' Idiot Boy , ' as a characteristic specimen of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry , after having really read his works , might be equally expected , after reading those of Lord Bacon , to quote , as characteristic ...
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... truths as in his manner of regarding the particulars of life as they arise and of generalising them into one truth or another according as the one or the other harmonises with his moral temperament and habitual and cherished states of ...
... truths as in his manner of regarding the particulars of life as they arise and of generalising them into one truth or another according as the one or the other harmonises with his moral temperament and habitual and cherished states of ...
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... truth . The real state of the case being , however , that truth can only be shown piecemeal in its component parts , and that poetry , at all events , can do no more than cast partial lights upon it , it is saying nothing in dero ...
... truth . The real state of the case being , however , that truth can only be shown piecemeal in its component parts , and that poetry , at all events , can do no more than cast partial lights upon it , it is saying nothing in dero ...
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Page 13 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Page 110 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 27 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Page 52 - ... tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page xix - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Page 64 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
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Page 110 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 4 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Page 7 - MA Prayers, with a Discourse on Prayer. Edited by his Wife. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. Price 6s. Sermons on Disputed Points and Special Occasions. Edited by his Wife. Third Edition. Crown 8vo.