Specimens of Irish EloquenceWilliam Grattan, 1820 - 351 |
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Strona vi
... genius ) have been provincialized into the very worst kind of partizanship - into a strug- gle - not for honours or principle , but for the sordid 1 emoluments and rancorous exercise of official station , and this contention , branded ...
... genius ) have been provincialized into the very worst kind of partizanship - into a strug- gle - not for honours or principle , but for the sordid 1 emoluments and rancorous exercise of official station , and this contention , branded ...
Strona xii
... genius ? Certainly not , with any can- did mind . Those pretensions should only be judged by their practical effect , and to this standard I submit without reservation the claims of Ireland to the meed of eloquence . In the series of ...
... genius ? Certainly not , with any can- did mind . Those pretensions should only be judged by their practical effect , and to this standard I submit without reservation the claims of Ireland to the meed of eloquence . In the series of ...
Strona xiii
... genius of Ireland ceases to express itself in imagery -it opens its infant eye upon the wildness of Crea- tion , the romantic and the magnificent identify them- selves with its imagination , the mind never can reject their association ...
... genius of Ireland ceases to express itself in imagery -it opens its infant eye upon the wildness of Crea- tion , the romantic and the magnificent identify them- selves with its imagination , the mind never can reject their association ...
Strona xiv
... - dinances by which , according to closet criticism , per- fection is to be adjusted ; but true genius rejects their application , and the literary Procrustes , who would XV torture it to any prescribed dimensions , will rarely Xiv.
... - dinances by which , according to closet criticism , per- fection is to be adjusted ; but true genius rejects their application , and the literary Procrustes , who would XV torture it to any prescribed dimensions , will rarely Xiv.
Strona 4
... genius is that which he pronounced on the necessity of conciliating America . Fatally for England , but fortunately for the world , his advice was rejected , and the persecuted colony has sprung into a noble republic , in whose example ...
... genius is that which he pronounced on the necessity of conciliating America . Fatally for England , but fortunately for the world , his advice was rejected , and the persecuted colony has sprung into a noble republic , in whose example ...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ... Dr Charles Phillips Podgląd niedostępny - 2016 |
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