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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... less than thirty came and went in the six years from 1814 to 1820 , many of them having been raised from the lowest ranks and being in no way fitted for their posts . It seemed as if , in his sardonic humour , he liked to make official ...
... less than thirty came and went in the six years from 1814 to 1820 , many of them having been raised from the lowest ranks and being in no way fitted for their posts . It seemed as if , in his sardonic humour , he liked to make official ...
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... less unlike were the characters of the two monarchs . It is to the honour of Isabel that she was as careful to have her children well educated and trained as her own mother had been to keep her in a state of absolute ignorance . Alfonso ...
... less unlike were the characters of the two monarchs . It is to the honour of Isabel that she was as careful to have her children well educated and trained as her own mother had been to keep her in a state of absolute ignorance . Alfonso ...
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... less than a quarter of their number in the sixteenth century . But , with all the disadvantages of her long wars and her political troubles during the past century , Spain has forged ahead in a remarkable way , at first in spite of her ...
... less than a quarter of their number in the sixteenth century . But , with all the disadvantages of her long wars and her political troubles during the past century , Spain has forged ahead in a remarkable way , at first in spite of her ...
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... less unmeasured , more or less relying on the art of special pleading , is what most of the other writers who have treated this subject have contributed . There was excuse for merely praising at first , in the fact that Blake's poetry ...
... less unmeasured , more or less relying on the art of special pleading , is what most of the other writers who have treated this subject have contributed . There was excuse for merely praising at first , in the fact that Blake's poetry ...
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... less original . A more self - conscious poet might avoid using Shakespeare's or Milton's words , even though they occurred to him in this way , but it would not be his originality which would warn him off ; far rather would it be fear ...
... less original . A more self - conscious poet might avoid using Shakespeare's or Milton's words , even though they occurred to him in this way , but it would not be his originality which would warn him off ; far rather would it be fear ...
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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.