Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, 2. köideTaylor and Hessey, 1824 |
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ALFIERI ALPUENTE amongst ancient Andrew Hoffer ANNE appears ARISTOTELES BACON believe better called CALLISTHENES cavaliere CHAISE character CHATHAM CHESTERFIELD Cicero comedy CONVERSATION creatures DAVID HUME death dittany eloquence England English equally Euripides fancy father favour French genius Gentius glory Gods greater happy hath heard heart HENRY holy holy alliance HOME HOOKER HUME imagine JOHN HOME JOHNSON king Lady Morgan language LASCY laws less lord LOUIS Majesty MARCUS master MAUROCORDATO MERINO METTERNICH mind moral nations ness never opinion patriotism perhaps PERICLES permitt Phædo Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato Plutarch prince Puntomichino QUINCTUS racter reason religion remark rendered RICHARD HOOKER Romans Rome SALOMON shew Socrates soldier SOPHOCLES soul Spain Spaniard spirit surely Talcranagh thee thing thou tion TOOKE true virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish words worse worthy write
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Page 395 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day.
Page 234 - TO CORINTH. QUEEN of the double sea, beloved of him Who shakes the world's foundations, thou hast seen Glory in all her beauty, all her forms ; Seen her walk back with Theseus when he left The bones of Sciron bleaching to the wind, Above the ocean's roar and cormorant's flight, So high that vastest billows from above Shew but like herbage waving in the mead ; Seen generations throng thy Isthmian games, And pass away — the beautiful, the brave, And them who sang their praises.
Page 297 - ... with those imperfectly. Until a short time ago, I could have conversed more fluently about Plato than I can at present; I had read all the titles to...
Page 52 - ... affectionately upon good, hath felt and known nothing of evil. I once persuaded thee to reflect much : let me now persuade thee to avoid the habitude of reflection, to lay aside books, and to gaze carefully and steadfastly on what is under and before thee.
Page 53 - Jane. I sincerely love the youth who hath espoused me ; I love him with the fondest, the most solicitous affection ; I pray to the Almighty for his goodness and happiness, and do forget at times, unworthy supplicant! the prayers I should have offered for myself. Never fear that I will disparage my kind religious teacher, by disobedience to my husband in the most trying duties.
Page 5 - ... a largess of beatitude. We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another ; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence ; each interlocutor stands before us, speaks, or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. Nothing is past which we desire to be present...
Page 235 - As flowers in stillest noon before the sun, They lie three paces from him : such they lie As when he left them sleeping side by side, A mother's arm round each, a mother's cheeks Between them, flushed with happiness and love. He was more changed than they were... doomed to shew Thee and the stranger, how defaced and scarred Grief hunts us down the precipice of years, And whom the faithless prey upon the last.
Page 396 - What lifts thee up ? what shakes thee ? 'tis the breath Of God. Awake, ye nations ! spring to life ! Let the last work of his right hand appear Fresh with his image, Man.
Page 398 - Exult at hope's fresh dayspring, tho' afar, There where my youth was not unexercised By chiefs in willing war and faithful song: Shades as they were, they were not empty shades, Whose bodies haunt our world and blear our sun, Obstruction worse than swamp and shapeless sands. Peace, praise, eternal gladness, to the souls That, rising from the seas into the heavens...
Page 209 - If men would permit their minds, like their children, to associate freely together — if they could agree to meet one another with smiles and frankness, instead of suspicion and defiance, the common stock of wisdom and of happiness would be centupled. — Probably those very two men who hate each other most, and whose best husbandry is to sow briars and thistles in each other's path, would, if they had ever met and conversed familiarly, have been ardent and inseparable friends.