The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 - English literature |
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... told , being vertical suggests the driving force of the emotions and the ' transverse beam of classic , the restful tranquillity of the intellect . ' But the intellect is neither restful nor tranquil ; it is , on the contrary ...
... told , being vertical suggests the driving force of the emotions and the ' transverse beam of classic , the restful tranquillity of the intellect . ' But the intellect is neither restful nor tranquil ; it is , on the contrary ...
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... told us about ghosts in the remains of the ancient Greek and Latin literature . Some of these stories belong professedly to the sphere of poetical mythology - the ghosts in Homer and in the Attic tragedians . But even such stories will ...
... told us about ghosts in the remains of the ancient Greek and Latin literature . Some of these stories belong professedly to the sphere of poetical mythology - the ghosts in Homer and in the Attic tragedians . But even such stories will ...
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... told by the Delphic oracle that their bad harvests were due to the wrath of the dead athlete Theagenes , whose statue they had dishonoured . At Anagyrus in Attica , one is told in the Lexicon of Suidas , a man cut down the grove of the ...
... told by the Delphic oracle that their bad harvests were due to the wrath of the dead athlete Theagenes , whose statue they had dishonoured . At Anagyrus in Attica , one is told in the Lexicon of Suidas , a man cut down the grove of the ...
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... told on the spot to Pausanias in the second century A.D. some 600 years after the event , but an old painting of the fifth century B.C. showed the figure of the hero Echetlus or Echetlæus in the Greek ranks . Browning , it may be ...
... told on the spot to Pausanias in the second century A.D. some 600 years after the event , but an old painting of the fifth century B.C. showed the figure of the hero Echetlus or Echetlæus in the Greek ranks . Browning , it may be ...
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... told , is in themselves , and its name is Superstition . But if two men like Dio and Brutus , men of grave character ... told in the original text . As for Dio , we are told that a little while before his assassination in the year 354 ...
... told , is in themselves , and its name is Superstition . But if two men like Dio and Brutus , men of grave character ... told in the original text . As for Dio , we are told that a little while before his assassination in the year 354 ...
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Page 146 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
Page 19 - ... sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, quid valeant umeri.
Page 369 - ... able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening now and then. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could be extinguished...
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Page 333 - In painting Cimabue thought that he Should hold the field, now Giotto has the cry, So that the other's fame is growing dim. So has one Guido from the other taken The glory of our tongue, and he perchance Is born, who from the nest shall chase them both...
Page 346 - ... reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not of every man's natural reason ; for, Nemo nascitur artifex.
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Page 214 - Bright shines the sun ; play, beggars play, Here's scraps enough to serve to-day. The world is ours, and ours alone, For we alone have world at will : We purchase not, all is our own, Both fields and streets we beggars fill ; Nor care to get, nor fear to keep, Did ever break a beggar's sleep. Bright shines the sun ; play, beggars play, Here's scraps enough to serve to-day.
Page 331 - l poema sacro, Al quale ha posto mano e Cielo e Terra, Sì che m' ha fatto per più anni macro, Vinca la crudeltà, che fuor mi serra Del bello ovile, ov...