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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... striking evidence of the serious interest taken by the German reading public in the literature of its own day and country . Our English writers of poetry and fiction are not less valuable , nor less valued than the Germans are by their ...
... striking evidence of the serious interest taken by the German reading public in the literature of its own day and country . Our English writers of poetry and fiction are not less valuable , nor less valued than the Germans are by their ...
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... striking example from his Phantasus ' - the second set of poems to which he gave that title : ' Rote Rosen winden sich um meine düstre Lanze . Durch weisse Lilienwälder schnaubt mein Hengst . Aus grünen Seeen , Schilf im Haar , tauchen ...
... striking example from his Phantasus ' - the second set of poems to which he gave that title : ' Rote Rosen winden sich um meine düstre Lanze . Durch weisse Lilienwälder schnaubt mein Hengst . Aus grünen Seeen , Schilf im Haar , tauchen ...
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... striking picture we may judge that the unification of Germany is still largely a matter of external forms , and has yet to become organic and vital . Indeed no German would deny this patent fact . Prince von Bülow , in his recent work ...
... striking picture we may judge that the unification of Germany is still largely a matter of external forms , and has yet to become organic and vital . Indeed no German would deny this patent fact . Prince von Bülow , in his recent work ...
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... striking illustra- tions of the officialism that prevails , and because of their immense , irresponsible , and dangerous powers . They resemble the tentacles of a gigantic octopus . The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries was established ...
... striking illustra- tions of the officialism that prevails , and because of their immense , irresponsible , and dangerous powers . They resemble the tentacles of a gigantic octopus . The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries was established ...
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... striking fact that in the fifteenth century B.C. Northern Mesopotamia was inhabited by an Indo - Iranian people , known to their neighbours as Mitanni , who were worshippers of Mithras together with other Vedic divinities such as Varuna ...
... striking fact that in the fifteenth century B.C. Northern Mesopotamia was inhabited by an Indo - Iranian people , known to their neighbours as Mitanni , who were worshippers of Mithras together with other Vedic divinities such as Varuna ...
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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...
Page 327 - L'effet, pour le spectateur, doit être une espèce d'ébahissement. Comment tout cela s'est-il fait ? doit-on dire, et qu'on se sente écrasé sans savoir pourquoi.
Page 321 - 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 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.