The Torch |
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... good old divines still circulated ; among the multitude , the most ribald and senseless of trashy pamphlets . Of the great mass of society , not one out of ten either read or possessed books of almost 2 THIRTY YEARS AGO .
... good old divines still circulated ; among the multitude , the most ribald and senseless of trashy pamphlets . Of the great mass of society , not one out of ten either read or possessed books of almost 2 THIRTY YEARS AGO .
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out of ten either read or possessed books of almost any kind ; now , every individual reads , and for a few pence can command the best of works . Thirty years ago , Blackwood's Magazine arose as a luminary of wit , drollery , and ...
out of ten either read or possessed books of almost any kind ; now , every individual reads , and for a few pence can command the best of works . Thirty years ago , Blackwood's Magazine arose as a luminary of wit , drollery , and ...
第 6 頁
... possessed by the fair family of mankind , and which must be lost to the dark ; for I can hardly believe that a blush may be seen in the negro . We think of blushes as accompanying shame ; but it is indicative of excitement . There is no ...
... possessed by the fair family of mankind , and which must be lost to the dark ; for I can hardly believe that a blush may be seen in the negro . We think of blushes as accompanying shame ; but it is indicative of excitement . There is no ...
第 12 頁
... possessed at starting , was the mys tery in which its writers were shrouded - they were not known , and blows from unknown hands are always dreaded . But that veil has been removed , and the sons of Momus stand revealed to public gaze ...
... possessed at starting , was the mys tery in which its writers were shrouded - they were not known , and blows from unknown hands are always dreaded . But that veil has been removed , and the sons of Momus stand revealed to public gaze ...
第 31 頁
... possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity , and of delivering down those im- provements by generation to its posterity , world without end ! ! " But Mr Weeks and our author go farther than this We wish ...
... possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity , and of delivering down those im- provements by generation to its posterity , world without end ! ! " But Mr Weeks and our author go farther than this We wish ...
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第 329 頁 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
第 85 頁 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
第 40 頁 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
第 250 頁 - There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
第 328 頁 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
第 25 頁 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity...
第 85 頁 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on...
第 286 頁 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
第 106 頁 - OH, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the teardrop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was...