The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, Volume 1For S. Walker, 1839 |
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aëre Æschylus Alice Townshend Alice's Bacchus beauty better Buchanan Cæsura Carthusian Cerberus Charterhouse cousin curricle dear Nicodemus Don Alonzo Perez doubt DUGALD STEWART endeavoured English fags fair Father Francis fear feeling felt Frank Townshend friends gentlemen give ground habits hand hath Hawkhurst head hear heard heart Hercules honour hope human humour Iverly jump Jim Crow Juno Jupiter ladies look master Mercury mind Moubray muse Natural Philosophy nature never NONSENSE VERSES o'er object observed once Ovid Oxford Union Society philosophy Pluto Preacher prejudices present principle Public School racter readers remarks replied scene schoolfellows Schoolmaster sent shocking bad smile soul spirit Spondees Staunton Priors Tarifa taste tears tell thee Thomas Sutton thou thought tion tone tongue true verse words young youth
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Página 59 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it, this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Página 61 - ... by cherishing as a vital principle an unbounded spirit of inquiry, and ardency of expectation, it unfetters the mind from prejudices of every kind, and leaves it open and free to every impression of a higher nature which it is susceptible of receiving, guarding only against enthusiasm and self-deception by a habit of strict investigation, but encouraging, rather than suppressing, everything that can offer a prospect or a hope beyond the present obscure and unsatisfactory state.
Página 51 - It is easy enough to understand how the sight of a picture or statue should affect us nearly in the same way as the sight of the original : nor is it much more difficult to conceive, how the sight of a cottage should give us something of the same feeling as the sight of a peasant's family ; and the aspect of a town raise many of the same ideas as the appearance of a multitude of persons.
Página 52 - ... nor is it much more difficult to conceive how the sight of a cottage should give us something of the same feeling as the sight of a peasant's family, and the aspect of a town raise many of the same ideas as the appearance of a multitude of persons. We may begin, therefore, with an example a little more complicated. Take, for instance, the case of a common English landscape...
Página 61 - ... places the existence and principal attributes of a Deity on such grounds as to render doubt absurd and atheism ridiculous, it unquestionably opposes no natural or necessary obstacle to further progress : on the contrary, by cherishing as a vital principle an unbounded spirit of...
Página 61 - ... if by inspiration, into rich and inexhaustible springs of knowledge and power on a simple change of our point of view, or by merely bringing to bear on them some principle which it never occurred before to try, will surely be the very last to acquiesce in any dispiriting prospects of either the present or future destinies of mankind; while, on the other hand, the boundless views of intellectual and moral, as well as material, relations which open...
Página 52 - ... of the simplicity by which it is contrasted with the guilt and the fever of a city life, — in the images of health, and temperance, and plenty which it exhibits to every eye, — and in the glimpses which it affords to warmer imaginations, of those primitive or fabulous times when man was uncorrupted by luxury and ambition, and of those humble retreats in which we still delight to imagine that love and philosophy may find an unpolluted asylum.
Página 9 - At the Charter-house (says Oldmixon, who was personally acquainted with Addison, and as a zealous whig, probably encouraged by him) he made acquaintance with two persons, for whom he had ever after an entire friendship, Stephen Clay, Esq. of the Inner Temple, author of the epistle in verse, from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King after the battle of Ramilies; and Sir Richard Steele, whom he served both with his pen and his purse.
Página 60 - ... that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the immortality of the soul, and to scoff at revealed religion.
Página 53 - ... and untrodden valleys — nameless and gigantic ruins — and mountain echoes repeating the scream of the eagle and the roar of the cataract. This, too, is beautiful ; and, to those who can interpret the language it speaks, far more beautiful than the prosperous scene with which we have contrasted it. Yet, lonely as it is, it is to the recollection of man and the suggestion of human feelings that its beauty also is owing.