The North British Review, Volumes 26-27W.P. Kennedy, 1857 - English literature |
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... less open to exception , and which may be brought within less compass . This , in fact , has been done by several recent writers . the author : this , whencesoever it may have proceeded , allies itself instantaneously with my own mind ...
... less open to exception , and which may be brought within less compass . This , in fact , has been done by several recent writers . the author : this , whencesoever it may have proceeded , allies itself instantaneously with my own mind ...
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... less difficult , when the compositions of the pulpit are tran - ferred to the press , to detach from them a peculiarity by which their whole texture may be pervaded , and thus to free them from what may be counted by many to be the ...
... less difficult , when the compositions of the pulpit are tran - ferred to the press , to detach from them a peculiarity by which their whole texture may be pervaded , and thus to free them from what may be counted by many to be the ...
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... less to have damaged his reputation as a denouncing as sheer atheism the surest de- philosophic theologian : what they have done ductions of physical philosophy . Chalmers is to bring the argument into its bearings could not be treated ...
... less to have damaged his reputation as a denouncing as sheer atheism the surest de- philosophic theologian : what they have done ductions of physical philosophy . Chalmers is to bring the argument into its bearings could not be treated ...
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... less declamatory ; and their effect tion into yet deeper depth - even into that is less damaged by that polemic tone which recess wherein an awakened conscience holds too much rings in our ears throughout the its throne - the ...
... less declamatory ; and their effect tion into yet deeper depth - even into that is less damaged by that polemic tone which recess wherein an awakened conscience holds too much rings in our ears throughout the its throne - the ...
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... less res- his son , but only of laughter . Noah pro- ponsible for them : for they have been sug- phesies ( in the ... less and has attempted to conceive of his characters , less chivalrous to women , less and less re- as he would if they ...
... less res- his son , but only of laughter . Noah pro- ponsible for them : for they have been sug- phesies ( in the ... less and has attempted to conceive of his characters , less chivalrous to women , less and less re- as he would if they ...
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Page 239 - And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair: And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, — 'Guess now who holds thee?' — 'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, — 'Not Death, but Love.
Page 19 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Page 20 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Page 19 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 175 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 104 - Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us : thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us...
Page 135 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 11 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart bv the pleasure of the eye.
Page 20 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 10 - Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business...