Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... Political crime - The ex- tradition of Anarchists OCTOBER 1900 . Clifford v . Grundy - Literary somnambulism - The criminal plagiarist - A plea for plagiarism - Virgil - Molière and Dumas - The masterpiece of the century - Miss ...
... Political crime - The ex- tradition of Anarchists OCTOBER 1900 . Clifford v . Grundy - Literary somnambulism - The criminal plagiarist - A plea for plagiarism - Virgil - Molière and Dumas - The masterpiece of the century - Miss ...
Pagina ix
... political phil- osopher - Chesterfield's irony - Mr Caine and his rival— Two pilgrims - A surfeit of emotions - The Egyptian pleasantry . 262 OCTOBER 1901 . The cruel murder of McKinley - The excuse of Anarchy - A guarded visitor - The ...
... political phil- osopher - Chesterfield's irony - Mr Caine and his rival— Two pilgrims - A surfeit of emotions - The Egyptian pleasantry . 262 OCTOBER 1901 . The cruel murder of McKinley - The excuse of Anarchy - A guarded visitor - The ...
Pagina 3
... politicians , actors or clergymen ; he liked to see them , and to breakfast with them , or to dine with them , or to chatter with them at the Athenæum . A pleasant whim , in truth , and no more dangerous to society than collecting ...
... politicians , actors or clergymen ; he liked to see them , and to breakfast with them , or to dine with them , or to chatter with them at the Athenæum . A pleasant whim , in truth , and no more dangerous to society than collecting ...
Pagina 9
... politicians . But nothing is left us of the pantomime but its name — no acting , no jest , no clown , no ... politics delivered by a young lady whose pink tights are obviously too small for her . This kind of hysteria may attract pennies ...
... politicians . But nothing is left us of the pantomime but its name — no acting , no jest , no clown , no ... politics delivered by a young lady whose pink tights are obviously too small for her . This kind of hysteria may attract pennies ...
Pagina 17
... political argument the present attitude of France ; and we , recognising the amiability of our neighbours , may congratulate ourselves that the vice is hopelessly incurable . Once upon a time , when France was marching to an easy ...
... political argument the present attitude of France ; and we , recognising the amiability of our neighbours , may congratulate ourselves that the vice is hopelessly incurable . Once upon a time , when France was marching to an easy ...
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Pagina 270 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Pagina 152 - Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Pagina 315 - I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and philosophy had met together. Truth and genius had embraced under the eye and with the sanction of religion.
Pagina 186 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 186 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there...
Pagina 171 - She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better.
Pagina 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Pagina 276 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Pagina 154 - IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my 'mind.
Pagina 261 - There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.