Outlooks on Society, Literature and PoliticsTicknor, 1888 - 345 страница |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 20
Страница
... THE CONSPIRACY AT WASHINGTON • 249 273 · MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH • 287 " LORD " BACON . LOWELL AS A PROSE WRITER 300 306 IN DICKENS - LAND • 314 OUTLOOKS ON SOCIETY , LITERATURE , AND POLITICS . PANICS.
... THE CONSPIRACY AT WASHINGTON • 249 273 · MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH • 287 " LORD " BACON . LOWELL AS A PROSE WRITER 300 306 IN DICKENS - LAND • 314 OUTLOOKS ON SOCIETY , LITERATURE , AND POLITICS . PANICS.
Страница 4
... Lord Bacon , " accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; " and certainly in this sense we could have boasted many poets among our men of industrial enterprise , had the " desires " been as poetical as the ...
... Lord Bacon , " accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; " and certainly in this sense we could have boasted many poets among our men of industrial enterprise , had the " desires " been as poetical as the ...
Страница 18
... Lord Brougham , in a passage black with bile , but which should be deeply meditated by every aspirant for executive office , has shown what a charming and dig- nified occupation that is which attempts to feed the hunger for place ...
... Lord Brougham , in a passage black with bile , but which should be deeply meditated by every aspirant for executive office , has shown what a charming and dig- nified occupation that is which attempts to feed the hunger for place ...
Страница 30
... Lord of heaven and earth to curse every person and every scheme that at all obstructed the success of his own objects , insensibly dimmed my perception of the natural piety which I at first supposed dictated his outbreak of pro- fane ...
... Lord of heaven and earth to curse every person and every scheme that at all obstructed the success of his own objects , insensibly dimmed my perception of the natural piety which I at first supposed dictated his outbreak of pro- fane ...
Страница 41
... Lord , though every reference of Mr. Smith to the Lord was an explosion of senile profanity shocking to all Christian ears . The blandness with which these smooth cler- ical gentlemen listened to his oaths indicated that they had much ...
... Lord , though every reference of Mr. Smith to the Lord was an explosion of senile profanity shocking to all Christian ears . The blandness with which these smooth cler- ical gentlemen listened to his oaths indicated that they had much ...
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
American Andrew Johnson assert attempt Bacon blood brain called Celt character Charles Sumner citizens civil Congress Constitution conventions coup d'état David Copperfield defeated Democratic Dickens dollars domestic election enemies England English equality fact Federal feeling Fernando Wood force genius give Government Hardhack heart honor hundred idea individual insurgent intellect intelligence invest Jefferson Davis Johnson labor laws Little Dorrit Lord loyal matter ment millions mind moral nation negro never North oath object organization party passions persons political politicians posterior cornu practical President principles privileges profanity public enemies question race reason Rebel Rebellion reconstruction religion represent Republican result ribaldry Senator sense sentiment Shakspeare Slave Power slaveholders Slavery souls South South Carolina Southern spirit suffrage theory things thought thousand tion traitors true uncon Union United vote voters wealth Whiskey Insurrection whole Wilmot Proviso words
Популарни одломци
Страница 342 - Mama is like you, Floy. I know her by the face ! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go ! ".. - , .j, ,4 ' ' The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room.
Страница 336 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Страница 337 - Per week. Yes. As to the amount of strain upon the intellect now. Was you thinking at all of poetry?' Mr Wegg inquired, musing. 'Would it come dearer?' Mr Boffin asked. 'It would come dearer,' Mr Wegg returned. 'For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.
Страница 252 - ... temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a selfmade man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.
Страница 252 - A big, loud man, with a stare and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
Страница 57 - I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves...
Страница 342 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion ! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death!
Страница 322 - m getting more used up every day, and I 'm proud to be so. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you 'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Страница 52 - ... his hind limbs, while it has been said that all the apes possess four hands ; and he has been affirmed to differ fundamentally from all the apes in the characters of his brain, which alone, it has been strangely asserted and reasserted, exhibits the structures known to anatomists as the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle and the hippocampus minor.
Страница 141 - That lie upon her charmed heart. She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.