The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton, Volumen11891 |
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... human blunders , and are sometimes of serious moment . - Perhaps the most numerous sort resulted from misreading by the printers of Bagehot's not very legible handwriting , perpetuated by his failure to correct them . Through this ...
... human blunders , and are sometimes of serious moment . - Perhaps the most numerous sort resulted from misreading by the printers of Bagehot's not very legible handwriting , perpetuated by his failure to correct them . Through this ...
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... human society what that did for organic life . No other writer had shown us that the early world was one where , so to say , water ran up - hill and parallel lines always met , where freedom was ruinous and persecution vital , the caste ...
... human society what that did for organic life . No other writer had shown us that the early world was one where , so to say , water ran up - hill and parallel lines always met , where freedom was ruinous and persecution vital , the caste ...
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... human race as possible . A society like this is in no lack of inequalities of any sort to furnish a stimulus to struggle , an incentive to every sort of ambition from the basest to the noblest , a motive to acquire everything tangible ...
... human race as possible . A society like this is in no lack of inequalities of any sort to furnish a stimulus to struggle , an incentive to every sort of ambition from the basest to the noblest , a motive to acquire everything tangible ...
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... human qualities could possibly be . - - The time of our college life was pretty nearly contemporaneous with the life of the Anti - Corn - Law League and the great agitation in favor of Free Trade . To us this was useful rather from the ...
... human qualities could possibly be . - - The time of our college life was pretty nearly contemporaneous with the life of the Anti - Corn - Law League and the great agitation in favor of Free Trade . To us this was useful rather from the ...
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... human reason could render of the mystery of the self - existent mind . In those early days Bagehot's manner was often supercilious . We used to attack him for his intellectual arrogance , — his vẞpic we called it in our college slang ...
... human reason could render of the mystery of the self - existent mind . In those early days Bagehot's manner was often supercilious . We used to attack him for his intellectual arrogance , — his vẞpic we called it in our college slang ...
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Página 121 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Página 120 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Página 120 - I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 248 - And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking:
Página 127 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Página 77 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 217 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 313 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 130 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 106 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...