 He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself,...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 45edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 482 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroime must be a tragedy victim, expiring, in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliiling... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroime must be a tragedy rictim, expiring, in show, and not, the real prisoner of misery, sliding... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 522 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death In the silence of a dungeon. As Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction... | |
 | John Fellows - Freemasonry - 1835 - 482 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tra" gidy-vietem, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the... | |
 | John Fellows - Druids and druidism - 1835 - 430 pages
...plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath pnrloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition...nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragidy-victem, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence... | |
 | Gilbert Vale - Political scientists - 1841 - 242 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratic hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery sliding into death in the silence... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that ham purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a...expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the hilence of a dungeon. — Rights of Man, Pt. 1. 8vo, Sthed. 1 79 1, pp. 26,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." Since the writing of these words, I come unexpectedly... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - France - 1844 - 684 pages
...plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purHoned him from himself, he degenerates into a composition...nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy victim * Mackintosh made use of the same argument in his Vindicia Qallicn, and was properly... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accu-tomcd to kiss the ariftocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...forsakes him. His hero, or his heroine, must be a tragedy victim expiring in show, and not the real pri-oncr of misery sliding iuto death in the silence... | |
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