Literary studies
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共 38 段- In this second education the childhood of Gibbon had been ve
- The grave and erudite habits of Gibbon soon developed themse
- And not only is this true of style, but it may be extended t
- There are slight palliations also in the notions then preval
- Of his character the principal point may be described in the
- —gives hints of joy and hope. This seems the natural dualism
- We do not mean that Cudworth’s style is not as good, or bett
- The case does not rest here. There is a second ground of obj
- Again, there is likewise a deeper sense in which the argumen
- We do not know with great accuracy what Sterne’s temptations
- He published some sermons too. That tolerant age liked, it i
- He could not emancipate himself from such impressions even i
- ‘Under the influence of these mixed sensations, and cheered
- ‘Even so the Laird of Ellangowan ruthlessly commenced his
- Such thoughts would have been to him ‘thinking without an ob
- The penetrating power of this remarkable genius among all cl
- ‘Then the going on again—so fresh at first, and shortly
- It perhaps follows from what has been said of the characteri
- Perhaps, too, a regular instruction and daily experience of
- ‘In his library all his rare powers were under the guidance
- But of this sluggishness of imagination he has certainly no
- Nor is this a small matter. In a state of high civilisation
- This species does not, however, exhaust the whole class. Soc
- There is obviously no need of affection in _this_ society. T
- This is a great exception to the transitoriness of political
- There are, however, some minds (and of these Mr. Clough’s wa
- ‘I cannot stay at Florence, not even to wait for a letter.
- Mr. Robinson had known nearly every literary man worth knowi
- But though no complete theory of the poetic art as yet be po
- The English literature undoubtedly contains much impure lite
- Mr. Arnold has justly observed that this self-justifying, se
- ‘’Thinketh, He made thereat the sun, this isle,
- The objection is, in most people’s apprehensions, and in its
- The same effect is undeniably produced on many minds—not nec
- There is an analogous phenomenon in the history of the world
- And upon this theory we perceive why the four tendencies to
- First, There are certain necessary propositions which the hu
- Many Continental statesmen would be much puzzled at this ins