The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 - English literature |
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... mean black labour . They do not want white workers . If they had them they would scarcely know what to do with them . Lord Selborne used to tell a tale of a Boer farmer who sat on his stoep lamenting because the weeds were suffocating ...
... mean black labour . They do not want white workers . If they had them they would scarcely know what to do with them . Lord Selborne used to tell a tale of a Boer farmer who sat on his stoep lamenting because the weeds were suffocating ...
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... means to be ironical or no , we cannot say . But Scott's lovers should not go there . The taste of George IV's days is not ours , and our hero's lack of artistic taste was consummate . We should rather go six miles up the water to ...
... means to be ironical or no , we cannot say . But Scott's lovers should not go there . The taste of George IV's days is not ours , and our hero's lack of artistic taste was consummate . We should rather go six miles up the water to ...
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... mean to include Shakespeare , though he does not verbally exclude him ) ' were as dull a set of ranters as ever existed , the Restoration writers , with all the re- sources of obscenity and viciousness , could not be humorous , the ...
... mean to include Shakespeare , though he does not verbally exclude him ) ' were as dull a set of ranters as ever existed , the Restoration writers , with all the re- sources of obscenity and viciousness , could not be humorous , the ...
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... mean to like " Waverley " if I can help it , but I fear I must . ' * The last two published before her death in July 1817 were ' The Black Dwarf ' and Old Mortality , ' and all her last year she was bravely struggling , against illness ...
... mean to like " Waverley " if I can help it , but I fear I must . ' * The last two published before her death in July 1817 were ' The Black Dwarf ' and Old Mortality , ' and all her last year she was bravely struggling , against illness ...
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... means of estimating this : she might have failed him as badly as , or worse than , Charlotte perhaps failed him ( it is only guess - work to say that Charlotte did ) . But if she had proved to be , or if Scott had wedded , a woman of ...
... means of estimating this : she might have failed him as badly as , or worse than , Charlotte perhaps failed him ( it is only guess - work to say that Charlotte did ) . But if she had proved to be , or if Scott had wedded , a woman of ...
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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?