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abstract Alfred de Musset amidst amongst artist beautiful become body Byron Carlyle Castlewood cause century character Childe Harold's Pilgrimage civilisation cloth extra Crown 8vo Dickens divine dreams emotions England English Esmond existence experience eyes facts faculties feel force French French Revolution genius George Sand German Giaour Goethe hand happy heart hero honour human Ibid ideas Illustrations imagination induction inner lady laws living Logic look Lord Lord Byron Macaulay marriage Martin Chuzzlewit mind moral nation nature never noble novels object ourselves passion Pecksniff philosophy pleasure poem poet poetic poetry produced propositions Puritan reason recognise religion Sartor Resartus satire sensations sentiment Siege of Corinth soul speak spirit style talent Tartuffe tears tender Thackeray things thought tion touch truth Vanity Fair violent virtue Voltaire whole words write young
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Pagina 20 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me.
Pagina 340 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Pagina 445 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Pagina 155 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Pagina 28 - Cyclopaedia of Costume ; or, A Dictionary of Dress — Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military — from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By JR PLANCHE, Somerset Herald.
Pagina 30 - Signboards : Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By JACOB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. With nearly 100 Illustrations.
Pagina 389 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Pagina 438 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Pagina 17 - Lamb's Complete Works, In Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by RH SHEPHERD. With Two Portraits and Facsimile of a Page of the
Pagina 455 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, ' Place me in the barge ;