The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1852 - Christianity |
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... kind of paradise to a man of cultivated genius that world of state - papers must have been ! But though divorced from literature comparatively during a great part of life , Sir James has been gradually returning to it for some years ...
... kind of paradise to a man of cultivated genius that world of state - papers must have been ! But though divorced from literature comparatively during a great part of life , Sir James has been gradually returning to it for some years ...
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... kind to be highly prized where there is a just perception as to the nature of history . It may be rich in all the effulgence of genius - as everything Mr. Macaulay does is sure to be - but to be the popular affair which he would make it ...
... kind to be highly prized where there is a just perception as to the nature of history . It may be rich in all the effulgence of genius - as everything Mr. Macaulay does is sure to be - but to be the popular affair which he would make it ...
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... kind . Neither the Roman system , nor Roman saints , are entitled to anything like the leniency he has shown them . That system has ever been , in the main , a great , a most corrupting lie ; and never more so than at this hour . In ...
... kind . Neither the Roman system , nor Roman saints , are entitled to anything like the leniency he has shown them . That system has ever been , in the main , a great , a most corrupting lie ; and never more so than at this hour . In ...
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... kind of familiar letters , addressed to society at large , by actors in the scene of public life , who have gladly escaped from its caution and reserve to enjoy the freedom of colloquial intercourse .'- pp . 211-213 . There is , however ...
... kind of familiar letters , addressed to society at large , by actors in the scene of public life , who have gladly escaped from its caution and reserve to enjoy the freedom of colloquial intercourse .'- pp . 211-213 . There is , however ...
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... the Restoration , and especially since the days of Dryden and Goldsmith . It may be that talent of this kind should be admitted , even now , to be more natural , upon the average , to the Frenchman than to the Englishman .
... the Restoration , and especially since the days of Dryden and Goldsmith . It may be that talent of this kind should be admitted , even now , to be more natural , upon the average , to the Frenchman than to the Englishman .
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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.