The North British Review, Volumes 42-43Leonard Scott & Company, 1865 |
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... turn every sentence in his rounding lathe . Going from one to the other , then , is like going from social conventionalism to freedom ; it feels as if one were escaping from a highly- served establishment , with its pomps and cere ...
... turn every sentence in his rounding lathe . Going from one to the other , then , is like going from social conventionalism to freedom ; it feels as if one were escaping from a highly- served establishment , with its pomps and cere ...
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... turn the Druid's lyre , to thee devote This lay , and love not inusic but for thee . " There is here a germ of the pure feeling for Scottish scenery which is not to be found in Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd , pastoral though it be . It ...
... turn the Druid's lyre , to thee devote This lay , and love not inusic but for thee . " There is here a germ of the pure feeling for Scottish scenery which is not to be found in Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd , pastoral though it be . It ...
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... turn on the event thus curtly set down- " Nae property these honest shepherds pled , 1 All kept alike , and all in common fed ; But ah ! misfortune , whilst they feared no ill , A crowd of Ketterin did their forest fill ; On ilka side ...
... turn on the event thus curtly set down- " Nae property these honest shepherds pled , 1 All kept alike , and all in common fed ; But ah ! misfortune , whilst they feared no ill , A crowd of Ketterin did their forest fill ; On ilka side ...
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... Turn'd Io to a cow , Narcissus to a flow'r ; * This is a translation of the following lines : — ' Si bene commemini , causæ sunt quinque bibendi : Hospitis adventus ; præsens sitis ; atque futura ; Et vini bonitas ; et quælibet altera ...
... Turn'd Io to a cow , Narcissus to a flow'r ; * This is a translation of the following lines : — ' Si bene commemini , causæ sunt quinque bibendi : Hospitis adventus ; præsens sitis ; atque futura ; Et vini bonitas ; et quælibet altera ...
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... turn on mere verbal wit , as where Jacob and Esau are each said to have given omne jus suum to his brother . Others are excellent exer- cises in versification , and several translations of a great part of them have appeared . It is not ...
... turn on mere verbal wit , as where Jacob and Esau are each said to have given omne jus suum to his brother . Others are excellent exer- cises in versification , and several translations of a great part of them have appeared . It is not ...
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Page 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 152 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Page 148 - I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Page 22 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 230 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 149 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 51 - Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Page 24 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Page 219 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 97 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.