Essays and Reviews, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1895 |
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Page 80
... sensibility of the Anglo - Saxon race for misari hropic rakes , genteel robbers , and sentimental pirates . He preached that the height of wisdom was hatred of man- kind , and that all the heroism of society was among its outcasts ...
... sensibility of the Anglo - Saxon race for misari hropic rakes , genteel robbers , and sentimental pirates . He preached that the height of wisdom was hatred of man- kind , and that all the heroism of society was among its outcasts ...
Page 107
Edwin Percy Whipple. nature ― - - we think , in the delicate sensibility with which he has traced , ind the natural eloquence with which he has pointed out , that amiliarity with beautiful forms and images — that eternal re currence to ...
Edwin Percy Whipple. nature ― - - we think , in the delicate sensibility with which he has traced , ind the natural eloquence with which he has pointed out , that amiliarity with beautiful forms and images — that eternal re currence to ...
Page 125
... sensibility . He was naturally shy and despairing of his own powers , and his dogmatism was of that turbulent kind which comes from passion and self - distrust . He had little repose of mind or manner , and in his works almost always ...
... sensibility . He was naturally shy and despairing of his own powers , and his dogmatism was of that turbulent kind which comes from passion and self - distrust . He had little repose of mind or manner , and in his works almost always ...
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... sensibility , and delivered with a rapid ity and animation of manner which swept along the minds of his hearers on the torrent of his eloquence , made him one of the most successful advocates at the Essex bar . In 1825 , he was elected ...
... sensibility , and delivered with a rapid ity and animation of manner which swept along the minds of his hearers on the torrent of his eloquence , made him one of the most successful advocates at the Essex bar . In 1825 , he was elected ...
Page 138
... exaggeration and ornament of the expression . It is one of his peculiarities , and a very triking one , that he combines a conservative intellect with a radical sensibility ; and those irregular impulses of 138 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... exaggeration and ornament of the expression . It is one of his peculiarities , and a very triking one , that he combines a conservative intellect with a radical sensibility ; and those irregular impulses of 138 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
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