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Page 427 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 259 - Stitch - stitch - stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!
Page 156 - I'd whisper, — Soft, my sister ! not a word ! By speaking we prove only we can speak, Which he, the man here, never doubted. What He doubts is, whether we can do the thing With decent grace we've not yet done at all. Now, do it; bring your statue, — you have room!
Page 261 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Page 191 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 140 - ... certainly obsessed with sex in a similar way, as we can see in some of his own pronouncements on sexual modesty. In the Familiar Letters, for example, writing in the guise of an uncle, he chides his niece's 'manly air' in these terms: 'I have been particularly offended ... at your new riding-habit; which is made so extravagantly in the mode, that one cannot easily distinguish your sex by it. For you look neither like a modest girl in it, nor an agreeable boy.
Page 406 - It is not every one to whom is given the capacity of always remaining a child. It is this blessed gift of receptive sensibility which it should be the endeavour (the unconscious endeavour, perhaps) of every artist to cultivate and to retain. There are those who would have us believe that technique is the end and aim of art. There are those who would persuade us that the art of acting is subject to certain mathematical laws, forgetting that these laws are but the footnotes of adroit commentators,...
Page 216 - He added, that this game is mentioned in the oldest law books, and that it was invented by the wife of Ravan, king of Lanca, in order to amuse him with an image of war, while his metropolis was closely besieged by Rama, in the second age of the .world.
Page 324 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind...
Page 406 - ... Acting, in fact', is purely an affair of the imagination — the actor more than any other artist may be said to be the " passion-winged minister of thought." Children are born actors. They lose the faculty only when the wings of their imagination are weighted by self-consciousness. It is not every one to whom is given the capacity of always remaining a child. It is this blessed gift of receptive sensibility which it should be the endeavour (the unconscious endeavour, perhaps) of every artist...