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... abstract Age of Pope , which contained within itself an abstract Pre - Romantic Opposition . English letters and English civilization had not this death - like 3039 с 6 simplicity , like that of an exhibit in a The Eighteenth Century 9.
... abstract Age of Pope , which contained within itself an abstract Pre - Romantic Opposition . English letters and English civilization had not this death - like 3039 с 6 simplicity , like that of an exhibit in a The Eighteenth Century 9.
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... abstract reason only rules the mind , In sordid selfishness it lives confin'd ; Moves in one vortex , separate and alone , And feels no other interest than its own.3 Love is a mighty force for good , but it is a free force . Modern ...
... abstract reason only rules the mind , In sordid selfishness it lives confin'd ; Moves in one vortex , separate and alone , And feels no other interest than its own.3 Love is a mighty force for good , but it is a free force . Modern ...
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... abstract political theory . A government is the creature of the General Will of a society . It is at best a necessary evil , caused by the existence of a few re- fractory individual wills in that society . The problem is to assure that ...
... abstract political theory . A government is the creature of the General Will of a society . It is at best a necessary evil , caused by the existence of a few re- fractory individual wills in that society . The problem is to assure that ...
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... abstract view of 1 Hansard , New Series , vol . ix , p . 1379 . 2 Parry , Last Days of Lord Byron ( 1826 ) , p . 221 . 3 Morning Chronicle , 9 June 1817 ; also 13 February 1819 ; 10 January 1823 ; 14 August 1823 ; 1 January 1824 ; 17 ...
... abstract view of 1 Hansard , New Series , vol . ix , p . 1379 . 2 Parry , Last Days of Lord Byron ( 1826 ) , p . 221 . 3 Morning Chronicle , 9 June 1817 ; also 13 February 1819 ; 10 January 1823 ; 14 August 1823 ; 1 January 1824 ; 17 ...
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... abstract political principles , Scott does , then , manage to leave the impression that one way of life is better than another , that a society based on the old idea of personal submission to an external authority is better than one ...
... abstract political principles , Scott does , then , manage to leave the impression that one way of life is better than another , that a society based on the old idea of personal submission to an external authority is better than one ...
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Page 10 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 167 - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Page 173 - And if then the tyrants dare, Let them ride among you there ; Slash, and stab, and maim, and hew ; What they like, that let them do. With folded arms and steady eyes, And little fear, and less surprise, Look upon them as they slay, Till their rage has died away...
Page 11 - Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul — Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul. These were days when my heart was volcanic As the scoriae rivers that roll, As the lavas that restlessly roll Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek In the ultimate climes of the pole, That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek In the realms of the boreal pole.
Page 151 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 172 - That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze Of sunrise gleams when earth is wrapped in gloom...
Page 178 - It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page 60 - Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth, Both understood and practised, — so that none.
Page 174 - The great thing to do is to hold the balance between popular impatience and tyrannical obstinacy ; to inculcate with fervour both the right of resistance and the duty of forbearance. You know my principles incite me to take all the good I can get in politics, for ever aspiring to something more. I am one of those whom nothing will fully satisfy, but who are ready to be partially satisfied in all that is practicable.
Page 49 - Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills ! And Souls of lonely places ! can I think A vulgar hope was yours when ye employed Such ministry...