The Quarterly Review, Volumen244John Murray, 1925 |
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... play with the genius which nevertheless mastered him at will . For , in truth , what is it that gives to all his works their unique and marking charm except the matchless effect which sudden effusions of the purest heart's blood of ...
... play with the genius which nevertheless mastered him at will . For , in truth , what is it that gives to all his works their unique and marking charm except the matchless effect which sudden effusions of the purest heart's blood of ...
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... - headings are alive with such magic things , often attributed to the ' Old Play ' or ' Old Ballad , ' just as Scott's own head was full of them . No doubt he hardly knew which of them were original , SIR WALTER SCOTT 27.
... - headings are alive with such magic things , often attributed to the ' Old Play ' or ' Old Ballad , ' just as Scott's own head was full of them . No doubt he hardly knew which of them were original , SIR WALTER SCOTT 27.
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... playing of roulette or the taking of lottery tickets . This is an important observation , and it may conveniently be expressed in a somewhat different form . We must distinguish sharply between betting on chance , and betting on skill ...
... playing of roulette or the taking of lottery tickets . This is an important observation , and it may conveniently be expressed in a somewhat different form . We must distinguish sharply between betting on chance , and betting on skill ...
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... play any game of pure chance , like tossing shillings , with regularity for a considerable period , my gains and losses will counter- balance each other , and I shall have had my fun for nothing . This goes on the assumption that I have ...
... play any game of pure chance , like tossing shillings , with regularity for a considerable period , my gains and losses will counter- balance each other , and I shall have had my fun for nothing . This goes on the assumption that I have ...
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... play games of hazard , or to bet on an issue wholly or mainly determined by chance is a legitimate way of escaping from the dullness of routine , is not sound . This line of escape is not only dangerous ; it is wrong . It is not in ...
... play games of hazard , or to bet on an issue wholly or mainly determined by chance is a legitimate way of escaping from the dullness of routine , is not sound . This line of escape is not only dangerous ; it is wrong . It is not in ...
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Página 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Página 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Página 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Página 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Página 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Página 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Página 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
Página 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Página 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Página 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?