The Modern Athens: A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch CapitalKnight and Lacey, 1825 - 320 páginas |
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Página 253 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Página 133 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Página 167 - Will several different courses sail ; As when the sea breaks o'er its bounds, And overflows the level grounds, Those banks and dams, that, like a screen, Did keep it out, now keep it in ; So when tyrannical usurpation Invades the freedom of a nation, The laws o' th' land, that were intended To keep it out, are made defend it.
Página 20 - They were in a fidget of the first magnitude, as to what was to be done, and who was to do it.
Página 319 - Athens boasts of herself as a model of elegance and of taste : I found her a compound of squalour and vulgarity. She boasts of her philosophy ; I found it pursuing thistledown over the wilderness. She boasts of her literary spirit ; I found her literature a mere disjointed skeleton, or rather the cast-skin of a toothless serpent. She boasts of her public spirit; I found almost every man pursuing his own petty interests, by the most sinister and contemptible means; and, perchance, the most noisy of...
Página 314 - writes himself armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero..
Página 214 - Word (s 1 ). 456. That the spirit of a man, after its separation from the body, is itself a man, and similar in form, has been proved to me by the daily experience of many years. I have seen them, I have heard them speak, and I have talked with them, thousands of times: and our conversation has sometimes been on this very...
Página 224 - Under Robertson, they knew all history ; and with Blair, every sentence was taken from the storehouse of the Belles Lettres, and measured by the gauge of Rhetoric. When Reid and Dugald Stewart turned the tables upon the sceptics, " the Athenians were entirely composed of intellectual or of active powers, and they were drawn and held by the sweetest cords of association. With Playfair, they attempted to go quietly to the very depth of philosophic systems ; and anon, they started to the moon with Dr....
Página 224 - Under Robertson they knew all history, and with Blair, every sentence was taken from the storehouse of the Belles-Lettres, and measured by the gauge of Rhetoric. When Reid and Dugald Stewart turned the tables upon the sceptics, the Athenians were entirely composed of intellectual and of active powers, and they were drawn and held by the sweetest chords of association. With Playfair, they attempted to go...