Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868 |
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... SOME OF HIS COMPANIONS .. 89 GRAY'S WORKS ........ 123 SIR THOMAS BROWNE .... 143 PITT AND FOX .... PYM US . FALKLAND ......... . THE LIFE OF SCHILLER . 183 ......... 277 335 NOTE TO THE READER . IN these volumes are for.
... SOME OF HIS COMPANIONS .. 89 GRAY'S WORKS ........ 123 SIR THOMAS BROWNE .... 143 PITT AND FOX .... PYM US . FALKLAND ......... . THE LIFE OF SCHILLER . 183 ......... 277 335 NOTE TO THE READER . IN these volumes are for.
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... Schiller is appended ; the second , of essays written in early youth , of which the greater part originally appeared under the title of " The Student ; " with the exception of the conclud- ing one , not hitherto published , upon the ...
... Schiller is appended ; the second , of essays written in early youth , of which the greater part originally appeared under the title of " The Student ; " with the exception of the conclud- ing one , not hitherto published , upon the ...
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... Schiller . told of both - in stripping themselves of clothing to relieve some more destitute object . Their fates , at the onset of life , were not very dissimilar ; but Schiller settled into the firm virtues of manhood - Goldsmith ...
... Schiller . told of both - in stripping themselves of clothing to relieve some more destitute object . Their fates , at the onset of life , were not very dissimilar ; but Schiller settled into the firm virtues of manhood - Goldsmith ...
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... Schiller was in the prime of his life , and quite capa- ble of being a book - seller's drudge , perhaps of writing Gre- cian histories , and works on Animated Nature , when two no- blemen , thinking that his genius was meant for other ...
... Schiller was in the prime of his life , and quite capa- ble of being a book - seller's drudge , perhaps of writing Gre- cian histories , and works on Animated Nature , when two no- blemen , thinking that his genius was meant for other ...
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... SCHILLER . A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . [ Originally prefixed to a Translation of " SCHILLER'S POEMS AND BALLADS , " published in 1847. ] THE LIFE OF SCHILLER . CHAPTER I. FIRST PERIOD . THE LIFE OF SCHILLER.
... SCHILLER . A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . [ Originally prefixed to a Translation of " SCHILLER'S POEMS AND BALLADS , " published in 1847. ] THE LIFE OF SCHILLER . CHAPTER I. FIRST PERIOD . THE LIFE OF SCHILLER.
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Page 137 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
Page 132 - Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.
Page 75 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and...
Page 170 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 171 - But the sufficiency of christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape irt oblivion.
Page 158 - Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.
Page 81 - Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor poll.
Page 312 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 81 - When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, " Your pulse is in greater disorder than it should be, from the degree of fever which you have : is your mind at ease ?" Goldsmith answered it was not.
Page 197 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: