The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1852 - Christianity |
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... become his snare . It seems to have precluded him from aiming at anything higher . His latest efforts are simply repetitions of his earliest . The material or the subject changes , but the handicraft brought to it is everywhere the same ...
... become his snare . It seems to have precluded him from aiming at anything higher . His latest efforts are simply repetitions of his earliest . The material or the subject changes , but the handicraft brought to it is everywhere the same ...
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... becoming dull ; and the man who would be profound will be sometimes obscure ; while the man who resolves that his rhetoric shall be so curbed and attempered as to become a vehicle fitted to convey all the nicer shades of truth , is ...
... becoming dull ; and the man who would be profound will be sometimes obscure ; while the man who resolves that his rhetoric shall be so curbed and attempered as to become a vehicle fitted to convey all the nicer shades of truth , is ...
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... become in French literature . In the manner of those writers , Sir James Stephen has contented himself with a general reference to the authors whom he has taken chiefly as his guides . We regret this , because , though the custom of ...
... become in French literature . In the manner of those writers , Sir James Stephen has contented himself with a general reference to the authors whom he has taken chiefly as his guides . We regret this , because , though the custom of ...
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... become himself an authority . The first four lectures give a masterly view of the decline and fall of the Romano - Gallic province , and of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties . The third lecture is wholly occu- pied with a ...
... become himself an authority . The first four lectures give a masterly view of the decline and fall of the Romano - Gallic province , and of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties . The third lecture is wholly occu- pied with a ...
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... becoming the victims of their own arts of fascination , have so often debased history , philosophy , and religion ... become master of the Essay on the Human Understanding , ' and then read Cousin's course of lectures upon it , and we ...
... becoming the victims of their own arts of fascination , have so often debased history , philosophy , and religion ... become master of the Essay on the Human Understanding , ' and then read Cousin's course of lectures upon it , and we ...
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Page 297 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 81 - What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o
Page 493 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 493 - Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 251 - For the first time for many months • it seems possible to send you a few words ; merely, however, ' for Remembrance and Farewell. On higher matters there ' is nothing to say. I tread the common road into the great ' darkness, without any thought of fear, and with very much of t ' hope. Certainty indeed I have none.
Page 507 - DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...
Page 1 - Henry J.) A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, with a glance at some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles.
Page 490 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Page 507 - That even in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of my Country! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine; Go, sleep, with the sunshine of Fame on thy slumbers, Till touched by some hand less unworthy than mine.
Page 496 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.