Essays in Biography and Criticism: Charles Kingsley. Thomas Babington Macaulay. Sir Archibald Alison. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wellington. Napoleon Bonaparte. Plato. Charateristics of Christian civilization. The modern university. The pulpit and the press. "The testimony of the rocks." A defenceGould and Lincoln, 1867 |
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Side 14
... speaking ever a louder , a more de- cisive word , of instruction , of guidance , of command . Of the second class of minds , in the descending order , the re- ceptive , the emotional , the distinctively sympathetic , it is ...
... speaking ever a louder , a more de- cisive word , of instruction , of guidance , of command . Of the second class of minds , in the descending order , the re- ceptive , the emotional , the distinctively sympathetic , it is ...
Side 16
... speak falsely : a union must be devised between the two . And so Mr. Kingsley becomes one great repre- sentative of the influence of Mr. Carlyle upon believers in Christianity in the nineteenth century . We speak not in any tone of ...
... speak falsely : a union must be devised between the two . And so Mr. Kingsley becomes one great repre- sentative of the influence of Mr. Carlyle upon believers in Christianity in the nineteenth century . We speak not in any tone of ...
Side 17
... speak against the Gospel of Jesus but the church must look warily and ponder well , when infidels assert that their standard is higher than hers , that the ancient , all - conquering banner is draggled in the mire . Mr. Kingsley is ...
... speak against the Gospel of Jesus but the church must look warily and ponder well , when infidels assert that their standard is higher than hers , that the ancient , all - conquering banner is draggled in the mire . Mr. Kingsley is ...
Side 33
... speak no more in a tone of contempt of political economy . It is true , that he mentions Mr. Mill with respect , but there is no disguising the sneer with which he greets the science of which Mr. Mill is a leading exponent . We may ...
... speak no more in a tone of contempt of political economy . It is true , that he mentions Mr. Mill with respect , but there is no disguising the sneer with which he greets the science of which Mr. Mill is a leading exponent . We may ...
Side 44
... speak . Readers shall judge for themselves . We must be excused for glancing somewhat particularly at the incidents of Westward Ho ! Their eloquence will prove far more expressive than ours . In the first chapter of the book , we are ...
... speak . Readers shall judge for themselves . We must be excused for glancing somewhat particularly at the incidents of Westward Ho ! Their eloquence will prove far more expressive than ours . In the first chapter of the book , we are ...
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admiration Alton Locke ancient army assertion attained beauty British calm campaign Carboniferous Carlyle century character Christianity Church civilization Coleridge Coleridge's command conservatism distinct earnest earth endeavor essays Europe exhibit fact fire French French Revolution gaze Genesis genius geologic geologic periods glance gleam glory hand heart heaven honor Hugh Miller human idea important influence intellectual Kingsley Kingsley's knowledge light literary look Macaulay Macaulay's Manicheism Massena ment mighty Miller Milton mind modern moral Mosaic Mosaic record Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte nations nature never noble Old Red Sandstone once period philosophy Plato poetry political present principles Protestantism pulpit question reader Reformation religion remark Samuel Taylor Coleridge scheme SECOND SERIES seems Sir Archibald Sir Archibald Alison soldier soul speak spirit sympathy theory thought tion Toulon true truth University valor victory Wellington whole words worship writer youth
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Side 141 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Side 136 - COLERIDGE sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Side 141 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Side 51 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Side 119 - Forlorn ! I hail thee Brother — spite of the fool's scorn! ' And fain would take thee with me, in the Dell Of Peace and mild Equality to dwell...
Side 58 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Side 137 - ... would suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring, and surely much-suffering man.
Side 57 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Side 145 - Coleridge, to many people, and often I have heard the complaint, seemed to wander; and he seemed then to wander the most when, in fact, his resistance to the wandering instinct was greatest — viz. when the compass and huge circuit, by which his illustrations moved, travelled farthest into remote regions before they began to revolve. Long before this coming round commenced, most people had lost him, and naturally enough supposed that he had lost himself. They continued to admire the separate beauty...
Side 51 - With his white hair unbonneted, the stout old sheriff comes ; Behind him march the halberdiers, before him sound the drums ; His yeomen, round the market-cross, make clear an ample space, For there behoves him to set up the standard of her Grace.