The Quarterly Review, Volume 221William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 - English literature |
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... becoming onerous ... it was in this aspect that Origen was so dear to the fathers of the English Reformation ' ; and again , in the same allegorical manner he treats the words altar , sacrifice ' ( pp . 435 , 436 ) . Whatever residuum ...
... becoming onerous ... it was in this aspect that Origen was so dear to the fathers of the English Reformation ' ; and again , in the same allegorical manner he treats the words altar , sacrifice ' ( pp . 435 , 436 ) . Whatever residuum ...
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... becomes more compre- hensive and more complex . One cannot decide whether to admire most his vast learning , or the sureness of selection which picks out the one necessary fact among twenty , or the illuminating summaries which give the ...
... becomes more compre- hensive and more complex . One cannot decide whether to admire most his vast learning , or the sureness of selection which picks out the one necessary fact among twenty , or the illuminating summaries which give the ...
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... becomes Nature accord- ing to the measure of the existing conditions of repro- duction and of their employment . ' Or , as he put it with mathematical brevity , whereas the former critics had declared that Art Nature + x , ' x being ...
... becomes Nature accord- ing to the measure of the existing conditions of repro- duction and of their employment . ' Or , as he put it with mathematical brevity , whereas the former critics had declared that Art Nature + x , ' x being ...
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... become Nature ' and could not do so without disaster . One suspects that Holz had overlooked this point . He had indeed an answer -- music and architecture did not aim at the representation of external realities but of human moods and ...
... become Nature ' and could not do so without disaster . One suspects that Holz had overlooked this point . He had indeed an answer -- music and architecture did not aim at the representation of external realities but of human moods and ...
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... becoming a writer of firstrate importance has not been fulfilled ; in books like ' Der Katzensteg ' and ' Das hohe Lied ' a quite astonishing futility lies behind the mask of force and daring . Finally , among recent verse - writers ...
... becoming a writer of firstrate importance has not been fulfilled ; in books like ' Der Katzensteg ' and ' Das hohe Lied ' a quite astonishing futility lies behind the mask of force and daring . Finally , among recent verse - writers ...
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Page 247 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers In Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests and Deacons.
Page 502 - I call an idea great in 1 proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the ' mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.
Page 323 - J'en ai aimé une depuis quatorze ans jusqu'à vingt sans le lui dire, sans lui (sic) toucher; et j'ai été près de trois ans ensuite sans sentir mon sexe. J'ai cru un moment que je mourrais ainsi; j'en remerciais le ciel.
Page 56 - Treasury the shadow of a board exists ; but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed "Council...
Page 331 - At my Nativity my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize" of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof.
Page 203 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Page 331 - Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed.
Page 342 - We command that Christian men be not, on any account, for altogether too little condemned to death : but rather let gentle punishments be decreed for the benefit of the people, and let not be destroyed for little God's handy-work, and His own purchase which he dearly bought.
Page 233 - I beg to direct your attention to Africa : I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open ; do not let it be shut again ! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU !" In a prefatory letter prefixed to the volume entitled Dr.
Page 473 - three, five, and fifteen' refer to the number of nights in the moon's changes. In the finale, the Tennin is supposed to disappear like a mountain slowly hidden in mist. The play shows the relation of the early Noh to the God-dance.