The Quarterly Review, Volume 220William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 - English literature |
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... human , if uncritical , to applaud the apology of the stationer in 1647 for not separating their works : ' But since never parted while they lived , I conceived it not equitable to separate their ashes . ' Sir Aston Cokain , in an ...
... human , if uncritical , to applaud the apology of the stationer in 1647 for not separating their works : ' But since never parted while they lived , I conceived it not equitable to separate their ashes . ' Sir Aston Cokain , in an ...
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... human heart , to the greater Elizabethans than Fletcher , judged by those plays only , is found to be . Fletcher suffers some loss from his verse , less responsive to every shade of feeling , less deep in sound and varied in music , in ...
... human heart , to the greater Elizabethans than Fletcher , judged by those plays only , is found to be . Fletcher suffers some loss from his verse , less responsive to every shade of feeling , less deep in sound and varied in music , in ...
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... a saint without a luminous halo . His personal characteristics are too distinct and too human to make idealisation easy . For this reason he has never been the object of popular " devotion . Shadowy figures like St Joseph and St ( 45 )
... a saint without a luminous halo . His personal characteristics are too distinct and too human to make idealisation easy . For this reason he has never been the object of popular " devotion . Shadowy figures like St Joseph and St ( 45 )
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... human interest of the Pauline Epistles , and of the Acts , is largely increased by these accessions to knowledge . The The Epistles are real letters , not treatises by a theo- logical professor , nor literary productions like the ...
... human interest of the Pauline Epistles , and of the Acts , is largely increased by these accessions to knowledge . The The Epistles are real letters , not treatises by a theo- logical professor , nor literary productions like the ...
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... human nature generally that he is speaking , when he gives utterance to that consciousness of sin which was one of the most distinctive parts of the Christian religion from the first . It does not seem likely that a man of so lofty and ...
... human nature generally that he is speaking , when he gives utterance to that consciousness of sin which was one of the most distinctive parts of the Christian religion from the first . It does not seem likely that a man of so lofty and ...
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Page 412 - Ye brown o'erarching groves, That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! Oft at the blush of dawn I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.
Page 390 - There is, indeed, no transaction which offers stronger temptations to fallacy and sophistication than epistolary intercourse. In the eagerness of conversation, the first emotions of the mind often burst out before they are considered; in the tumult of...
Page 391 - A hunger seized my heart ; I read Of that glad year which once had been, In those fall'n leaves which kept their (green, The noble letters of the dead...
Page 269 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest...
Page 402 - Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
Page 152 - It drives one almost to despair of English literature when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of all Flesh making so little impression...
Page 396 - ... the passages which he thought exceptionable. He made several attempts to quote the poem, but always in a blundering, inaccurate manner. Burns bore all this for a good while with his usual good-natured forbearance, till at length, goaded by the fastidious criticisms and wretched quibblings of his opponent, he roused himself, and with an eye flashing contempt and indignation, and with great vehemence of gesticulation, he thus addressed the old critic : ' Sir, I now perceive a man may be an excellent...
Page 392 - Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire.
Page 396 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 537 - Kingdom, at the end of twenty-five years from the date of this our Charter, and at the end of every succeeding period of ten years, to add to, alter, or repeal any of the provisions of this our Charter, or to enact other provisions in substitution for or in addition to any of its existing provisions : Provided that the right and power thus reserved shall be exercised only in relation to so much of this our Charter as relates to administrative and public matters.