Why should it embarrass its melody and harmony, or constrain its time and measure, by attempting an imitation which, without the accompaniment of some other art to explain and interpret its meaning, nobody is likely to understand? The distress which an innocent person feels, who, by some accident, has been led to do something which, if it had been done […]

A thing is only rightly so called when it is supposed to be fitted to provoke men’s laughter in general. It is this superintending or _conscious_ faculty or principle which is aware both of the colour, form, and sound of an object; which connects its present appearance with its past history; which arranges and combines the multifarious impressions of nature […]

Encouraged by this, the most fanciful interpretation was given to violations of the respect assumed to be due to the late emperor. Charles the Second’s neglect of his favourite poet Butler did not make him look less gracious in the eyes of his courtiers, or of the wits and critics of the time. But this makes still for us; for […]

He states that he never administered it when the evidence without it was sufficient for conviction, nor when there was not enough other proof to justify the use of torture; and that in all cases it was employed as a prelude to torture—“pr?parandum et muniendum tortur? The sigh that so frequently follows the laugh, and has been supposed to illustrate […]

If it is true that the library ought not to be used by children below a specified age, work done in ascertaining their ages and in excluding those barred out by the rule is necessary and valuable. Men of easy morals will laugh cynically, perhaps, at forms of imposture which would shock those of a finer moral texture. Then, making […]

By some writers they have been termed mud cliffs, from their dark colour and general appearance. Against this a man might argue that he had solemnly vowed not to shed human blood, either as a soldier or otherwise, and that he is right to resist any attempt to conscript him for the army, since he would thereby be required to […]

roman empire outline essay the fall of. Matter also drifted along the bottom, is arrested by any obstacle, and accumulates round it, just as the African sand-winds raise a small hillock over the carcase of every dead camel exposed on the surface of the desert. Lipps, a brief examination of it may content us here. Boileau replied, with, perhaps, an […]

The teasing, it is added, is of a rough and not very decent kind.[173] Further evidence of this distaste for the douche of a voluble laughter is supplied by the curious ordeals of the Greenlanders, to be spoken of presently. As we cannot indeed enter thoroughly into the gratitude of the person who receives the benefit, unless we beforehand approve […]

Thus, as we mentally develop, admirations having a richer ideational structure and more complexity of feeling-tone take the place of the first simple ones, which last die out or survive only as rudimentary processes. He himself evidently had a strong possession of his subject, a thorough conviction, an intense interest; and this communicated itself from his _manner_, from the tones […]

They coughed and shuffled him down. Arthur Symons (for the quotation was, of course, not from Mr. Sainte-Beuve regards Rabelais, who was a grave doctor, and who worthily represented in his public lectures at Lyons “the majesty of science,” as writing with the quite serious purpose of throwing out in advance certain ideas of deep import (_de grand sens_) “dans […]