The Quarterly Review, Volumen208William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1908 |
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... at the present moment it seems impossible to break the spell of the old romances . Vol . 208.-No. 414 . B Writers of to - day , in England and America THE RELIGIONS OF THE FAR EAST II JAPAN Le Bouddhisme Japonais By Ryauon Fujishima.
... at the present moment it seems impossible to break the spell of the old romances . Vol . 208.-No. 414 . B Writers of to - day , in England and America THE RELIGIONS OF THE FAR EAST II JAPAN Le Bouddhisme Japonais By Ryauon Fujishima.
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... seems im- possible , and even this short paragraph superfluous . ' If this sentence , as it stands , be applied to the two men who practically ruled Spain during the twenty years after 1837 , the reader will obtain a truer conception of ...
... seems im- possible , and even this short paragraph superfluous . ' If this sentence , as it stands , be applied to the two men who practically ruled Spain during the twenty years after 1837 , the reader will obtain a truer conception of ...
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... seem to us , of national character and modes of life become realities to the reader . Perhaps no man has done more to ... seems to entertain consider- able respect -- and an interesting account of the sorry spectacle of the funeral of ...
... seem to us , of national character and modes of life become realities to the reader . Perhaps no man has done more to ... seems to entertain consider- able respect -- and an interesting account of the sorry spectacle of the funeral of ...
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... seems likely that they , whom this defiance might have made reluctant to enter his service , will effect most for his glory . The scholarship and logic of Mr Sampson have at last provided an authoritative text of his definitely metrical ...
... seems likely that they , whom this defiance might have made reluctant to enter his service , will effect most for his glory . The scholarship and logic of Mr Sampson have at last provided an authoritative text of his definitely metrical ...
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... seems to me to have been the main drift of Blake's myth , before passing on to con- sider the fatal effects on his mental habit of trust in vision and misuse of language . As flowing water in a pipe might suppose that the conduit's ...
... seems to me to have been the main drift of Blake's myth , before passing on to con- sider the fatal effects on his mental habit of trust in vision and misuse of language . As flowing water in a pipe might suppose that the conduit's ...
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Página 85 - ... sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsic and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction...
Página 121 - To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor as you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth.
Página 89 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Página 142 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where...
Página 90 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
Página 513 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be named and printed heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch What d'ye call.
Página 51 - Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed & govern'd their Passions or have No Passions, but because they have Cultivated their Understandings. The Treasures of Heaven are not Negations of Passion, but Realities of Intellect, from which all the Passions Emanate Uncurbed in their Eternal Glory.
Página 91 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 266 - When he came back to Athens, bringing word of the calamity, the wives of those who had been sent out on the expedition took it sorely to heart that he alone should have survived the slaughter of all the rest; — they therefore crowded round the man, and struck him with the brooches by which their dresses were fastened — each, as she struck, asking him where he had left her husband.
Página 354 - Abandon'd to delicious thought Beneath the softly twinkling shade. The leaves, all stirring, mimick'd well A neighbouring rush of rivers cold, And, as the sun or shadow fell, So these were green and those were gold ; In dim recesses hyacinths droop'd, And breadths of primrose lit the air, Which, wandering through the woodland, stoop'd And gather'd perfumes here and there ; Upon the spray the squirrel swung, And careless songsters, six or seven, Sang lofty songs the leaves among, Fit for their only...