The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1855 |
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... heart - felt gratitude in a few days . " Pilkington must have resolved to have his jest as well as his guineas , when he made poor Oliver the dupe of so gross a hoax . Two years elapsed , when he suddenly reäp- peared in a state of semi ...
... heart - felt gratitude in a few days . " Pilkington must have resolved to have his jest as well as his guineas , when he made poor Oliver the dupe of so gross a hoax . Two years elapsed , when he suddenly reäp- peared in a state of semi ...
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... heart , which is the faculty that Johnson valued most in a novel- ist , and the want of it in Goldsmith was a principal cause of his low estimation of the Vicar of Wakefield . " Much as Oliver had seen of life , he had no great power of ...
... heart , which is the faculty that Johnson valued most in a novel- ist , and the want of it in Goldsmith was a principal cause of his low estimation of the Vicar of Wakefield . " Much as Oliver had seen of life , he had no great power of ...
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... heart . Colman , the new manager of Covent - Garden When all were gone except Johnson here I theatre , who immediately accepted it . " I burst out a - crying , and even swore that I cannot help feeling a secret satisfaction , " he would ...
... heart . Colman , the new manager of Covent - Garden When all were gone except Johnson here I theatre , who immediately accepted it . " I burst out a - crying , and even swore that I cannot help feeling a secret satisfaction , " he would ...
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... heart ; that it entirely spent itself in occasional outbreaks ; and that he was utterly incapable of a steady rancor , or of doing an action which could hurt any man living . He once proposed to muster a party to damn Home's play " The ...
... heart ; that it entirely spent itself in occasional outbreaks ; and that he was utterly incapable of a steady rancor , or of doing an action which could hurt any man living . He once proposed to muster a party to damn Home's play " The ...
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... heart , the voice was so low that he heeded it not . In 1494 , Queen Isa- bella obtained a bull from Pope Alexander VI . ( of infamous memory ) , to reform the conventual abuses , which existed to such an extent throughout Spain , that ...
... heart , the voice was so low that he heeded it not . In 1494 , Queen Isa- bella obtained a bull from Pope Alexander VI . ( of infamous memory ) , to reform the conventual abuses , which existed to such an extent throughout Spain , that ...
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Page 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Page 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 152 - ... of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Page 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Page 408 - PRACTICAL PIETY; Or, the Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life, 32mo, portrait, cloth, 2s.