Men and Manners: Sketches and EssaysIllustrated London Library, 1852 - 313 pages |
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abstract admiration affected agreeable amuse appear beauty better blue-stockings cant caput mortuum CASTLE OF INDOLENCE character common critic delight Domenichino Don Quixote dull Editor effeminacy English envy equally everything excellence excite fancy fashion favour favourite feeling French genius give grace ground hate heart heroes human humour idea ignorance imagination insipid interest knowledge lady laugh less look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lord Chatham Mail-Coach manner merit MERRY ENGLAND mind moral nature never nickname object opinion ourselves pain party passion perfection perhaps persons pleasure prejudice pretensions pride principle proof PULTENEY STREET quackery racter reason refinement Rembrandt sense sentiment Shakspeare shibboleth sort sound spirit spleen stand style supposed taste things thought throw tion Titian true truth turn understanding unso vanity virtue Voltaire vulgar Whig whole words write
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Page 280 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 258 - And, having dropped th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 244 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 280 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 244 - My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow ; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest ; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.
Page 182 - The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!
Page 244 - HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred...
Page 178 - That no man is the lord of any thing (Though in and of him there be much consisting) Till he communicate his parts to others ; Nor doth he of himself know them for aught Till he behold them...
Page 130 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 120 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.