The Quarterly Review, Volume 208William 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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... interest , but one of the most difficult to understand . Perhaps about no other have more absurd fables or such misleading ideas obtained currency ; and even at the present moment it seems impossible to break the spell of the old ...
... interest , but one of the most difficult to understand . Perhaps about no other have more absurd fables or such misleading ideas obtained currency ; and even at the present moment it seems impossible to break the spell of the old ...
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... interest for the genera- tion which had lived through the Peninsular War , and for its successor , has been unaccountably neglected by English writers during the last fifty years . It was a curiously complex character which was ...
... interest for the genera- tion which had lived through the Peninsular War , and for its successor , has been unaccountably neglected by English writers during the last fifty years . It was a curiously complex character which was ...
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... interests of clemency ; she alone had produced heirs to the crown . Although this young Queen - as was only known much later a very few months after the death of the King , was legally , though privately , married to the sergeant of the ...
... interests of clemency ; she alone had produced heirs to the crown . Although this young Queen - as was only known much later a very few months after the death of the King , was legally , though privately , married to the sergeant of the ...
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... interests to do so . It was a see - saw of political jealousies , interrupted by frequent Pronunciamentos , ' rather than any real struggle of parties . The object was sometimes to obtain possession of the Queen's person , sometimes to ...
... interests to do so . It was a see - saw of political jealousies , interrupted by frequent Pronunciamentos , ' rather than any real struggle of parties . The object was sometimes to obtain possession of the Queen's person , sometimes to ...
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... interests in all parts of the world . Her own colleges are turning out engineers and scientists ; she is at this moment abreast of Europe in wireless telegraphy and all the modern appliances of science . Of late years agricultural ...
... interests in all parts of the world . Her own colleges are turning out engineers and scientists ; she is at this moment abreast of Europe in wireless telegraphy and all the modern appliances of science . Of late years agricultural ...
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Página 517 - 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 87 - ... 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 123 - 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 516 - Gangraena, or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the Sectaries of this time,' which appeared in three successive portions during the course of the year 1646.
Página 95 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the " Rape of the Lock ;" and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the
Página 91 - 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 82 - The Art of Criticism, as exemplified in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.
Página 144 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where...
Página 92 - 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.