The Quarterly Review, Volume 45William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1831 - English literature |
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... called the florid Eastern style is chiefly to be found in translations ; and that the charac- teristics of the originals are often rather flatness and vapidity than exuberance of ornament . ' * The justice of this opinion , we ap ...
... called the florid Eastern style is chiefly to be found in translations ; and that the charac- teristics of the originals are often rather flatness and vapidity than exuberance of ornament . ' * The justice of this opinion , we ap ...
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... called the Great Bharata , for it is distributed into eighteen parts , which together amount to one hundred thousand slokas or distichs . In the midst of this giant epic occurs the Bhagavat - Gita , or the Divine Song - an episode ...
... called the Great Bharata , for it is distributed into eighteen parts , which together amount to one hundred thousand slokas or distichs . In the midst of this giant epic occurs the Bhagavat - Gita , or the Divine Song - an episode ...
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... called the Swayambara , or self - election , where the princess is to designate the favoured suitor by throwing a wreathe of flowers round his neck . The roads to the court of Vidarbha are crowded with rajahs and kings ; and groan ...
... called the Swayambara , or self - election , where the princess is to designate the favoured suitor by throwing a wreathe of flowers round his neck . The roads to the court of Vidarbha are crowded with rajahs and kings ; and groan ...
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... called three beau- tiful elegies , full of curious allusions to the state of Indian society , enforce their claim to the privilege of being made the sacrifice . At the close they sit down and weep . ' Seeing them together weeping ...
... called three beau- tiful elegies , full of curious allusions to the state of Indian society , enforce their claim to the privilege of being made the sacrifice . At the close they sit down and weep . ' Seeing them together weeping ...
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... called upon to state which of all the qualities in these great officers we hold in highest admiration , we should say it is the courageous strength of mind evinced by them when called upon to abandon the enterprises upon which their ...
... called upon to state which of all the qualities in these great officers we hold in highest admiration , we should say it is the courageous strength of mind evinced by them when called upon to abandon the enterprises upon which their ...
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Page 123 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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