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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... present map of Europe . What wonder if the young historian is drawn into the fascinating paths which promise so much new and fruitful adventure , and neglects the well - worn road where so many feet have passed before him ? But the ...
... present map of Europe . What wonder if the young historian is drawn into the fascinating paths which promise so much new and fruitful adventure , and neglects the well - worn road where so many feet have passed before him ? But the ...
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... present writer . But turn to Germany , and consider such a book as that which we have placed at the head of our list . Soergel's ' Dichtung und Dichter ' covers roughly the history of German literature from 1870 to the present day . It ...
... present writer . But turn to Germany , and consider such a book as that which we have placed at the head of our list . Soergel's ' Dichtung und Dichter ' covers roughly the history of German literature from 1870 to the present day . It ...
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... present day . As he says himself : ' Ich habe mir die Stoffe gewählt Die mir gefallen , ich schrieb vom Herzen Jubel und Jauchzen , Leid und Schmerzen . ' Yet a single terrible line , ' Das Leben , äh was , macht uns alle brutal ...
... present day . As he says himself : ' Ich habe mir die Stoffe gewählt Die mir gefallen , ich schrieb vom Herzen Jubel und Jauchzen , Leid und Schmerzen . ' Yet a single terrible line , ' Das Leben , äh was , macht uns alle brutal ...
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... present day , one cannot say that it has yet run pure and strong . A great advance has been made in perfecting the instrument and in clarifying the ideals of literature , but there has arisen no great inter- preter of life . Gerhard ...
... present day , one cannot say that it has yet run pure and strong . A great advance has been made in perfecting the instrument and in clarifying the ideals of literature , but there has arisen no great inter- preter of life . Gerhard ...
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... present epoch . His scenery and characters are cosmopolitan in their range - he has a special predilection for Englishmen , whom he draws with complete sympathy and under- standing — and his theory of fiction is that the serious ...
... present epoch . His scenery and characters are cosmopolitan in their range - he has a special predilection for Englishmen , whom he draws with complete sympathy and under- standing — and his theory of fiction is that the serious ...
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Page 201 - 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 507 - I say to the Government that they may tomorrow withdraw every one of their troops from Ireland. I say that the coast of Ireland will be defended from foreign invasion by her armed sons, and for this purpose armed Nationalist Catholics in the South will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulstermen in the North.
Page 496 - 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 309 - 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.
Page 54 - 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...
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Page 340 - 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 231 - 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 34 - He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the human lot; How warm the tints of Life; how hot Are Love and Hate; And what makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great.