The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 - English literature |
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Page 89
... existence on the tolerance and good nature of their neighbours . It has been computed that two - thirds of our Continent consist of independent countries each one containing fewer inhabitants than New York . Yet most of these and nearly ...
... existence on the tolerance and good nature of their neighbours . It has been computed that two - thirds of our Continent consist of independent countries each one containing fewer inhabitants than New York . Yet most of these and nearly ...
Page 91
... existence any more than a private individual can lead the ' simple life ' and dispense with the services of his fellows . Latter - day civilisation like Briareus has a hundred hands by which it seizes and fastens on persons and nations ...
... existence any more than a private individual can lead the ' simple life ' and dispense with the services of his fellows . Latter - day civilisation like Briareus has a hundred hands by which it seizes and fastens on persons and nations ...
Page 99
... existence . For a social culture , even of the most primitive kind , is never simply a material unity . It involves not only a certain uniformity in social organisation and in the way of life , but also a continuous and conscious ...
... existence . For a social culture , even of the most primitive kind , is never simply a material unity . It involves not only a certain uniformity in social organisation and in the way of life , but also a continuous and conscious ...
Page 106
... existence is bound to the wheel of birth and death , of suffering and desire . Not only is this human life an illusion , but the life of the gods is an illusion too , and behind the whole cosmic process there is no underlying reality ...
... existence is bound to the wheel of birth and death , of suffering and desire . Not only is this human life an illusion , but the life of the gods is an illusion too , and behind the whole cosmic process there is no underlying reality ...
Page 107
emancipation of the soul from the defilements of corporal existence , which had a powerful influence on the Greek mind and even on Greek philosophy , until at last the vision of eternity , which had so long absorbed the mind of India ...
emancipation of the soul from the defilements of corporal existence , which had a powerful influence on the Greek mind and even on Greek philosophy , until at last the vision of eternity , which had so long absorbed the mind of India ...
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Page 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Page 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Page 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Page 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Page 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Page 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
Page 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Page 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?