The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 sider |
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... feeling re- spects in his own case , as in the case of another . The only in- stances which are laid bare to the public view are the unhappy marriages , which are really not marriages at all . An unhappy al- liance bears exactly the ...
... feeling re- spects in his own case , as in the case of another . The only in- stances which are laid bare to the public view are the unhappy marriages , which are really not marriages at all . An unhappy al- liance bears exactly the ...
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... feeling . The consideration for the feelings of women gives an agreeable tone to society , but it is fatal to the severity of truth . Observe a man of the world whose opinions are well known to you , -notice the little pause before he ...
... feeling . The consideration for the feelings of women gives an agreeable tone to society , but it is fatal to the severity of truth . Observe a man of the world whose opinions are well known to you , -notice the little pause before he ...
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... feelings , it is heredi- tary and instinctive . Men will never talk to women with that rough frankness which they ... feels that if he says anything different from what she has been accustomed to , she will take offense ; whilst if he ...
... feelings , it is heredi- tary and instinctive . Men will never talk to women with that rough frankness which they ... feels that if he says anything different from what she has been accustomed to , she will take offense ; whilst if he ...
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... feeling must be condemnable , subversive of gentleness , incompatible with kindness ? Not necessarily so , or universally ; far from it . The word ridicule , it is true , has a narrow , one - sided meaning . From our proneness to mix up ...
... feeling must be condemnable , subversive of gentleness , incompatible with kindness ? Not necessarily so , or universally ; far from it . The word ridicule , it is true , has a narrow , one - sided meaning . From our proneness to mix up ...
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... feeling of superiority in us , but because the incongruity is broader and more glaring . Nor when we laugh at a droll combination of imagery do we feel any contempt , but often ad- miration at the ingenuity shown in it , and an almost ...
... feeling of superiority in us , but because the incongruity is broader and more glaring . Nor when we laugh at a droll combination of imagery do we feel any contempt , but often ad- miration at the ingenuity shown in it , and an almost ...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6 David Josiah Brewer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1900 |
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Side 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Side 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Side 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Side 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Side 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Side 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Side 2402 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Side 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Side 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Side 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.