He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be... MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE - Página 103por W. T. Sherwin - 1819 - 232 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 páginas
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroime must be a tragedy rictim, expiring, in show, and not, the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon. As Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastille (and his silence is nothing in his... | |
| John Fellows - 1835 - 432 páginas
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragidy-vietem, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery,...sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." Mr. Burke for his apostacy from the whig cause, and writing his philippic against the French revolution,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 páginas
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death In the silence of a dungeon. As Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastile (and his silence is nothing in his... | |
| Gilbert Vale - 1841 - 242 páginas
...than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities...government, in opposition to the dogmatical assertions and high-sounding declamation of his antagonist, and concludes V his argument with a comparison between... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 páginas
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the hilence of a dungeon. — Rights of Man, Pt. 1. 8vo, Sthed. 1 79 1, pp. 26, 27"WE ALL DO FADE AS A... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 606 páginas
...of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedyvictim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." Since the writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 684 páginas
...hogshead of wine j his feelings may be refined and elevated by a bottle." 1 791.1 THOMAS PAINE AND expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery,...sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon."* He said he would refresh Burke's memory with the history of the whole transaction of the capture of... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero, or his heroine, 7nust be a tragedy victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery sliding into death iu the silence of a dungeon." A state prosecution was on foot against him when a French deputation... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...misery sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." A state prosecution was on foot against him when a French deputation called him to France, to sit in... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1856 - 168 páginas
...of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedyvictim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungpon. Aa Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastille (and bis silence is nothing... | |
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