The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 145-146Theodore Foster, 1878 |
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... words of a modern poet who has admirably caught his patriotic spirit : True then , that god - like utterance is true ... word . ' Evil indeed is not to be done for its own sake . But where a desirable end is in view , cruelty is a ...
... words of a modern poet who has admirably caught his patriotic spirit : True then , that god - like utterance is true ... word . ' Evil indeed is not to be done for its own sake . But where a desirable end is in view , cruelty is a ...
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... words may be accepted as an accurate criticism on the general character of Italian literature . They are in the ... word applicable to Boccaccio ; his tone , in the introduction to the ' Decam- eron , ' is that of a man of the world who ...
... words may be accepted as an accurate criticism on the general character of Italian literature . They are in the ... word applicable to Boccaccio ; his tone , in the introduction to the ' Decam- eron , ' is that of a man of the world who ...
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... words could more vividly express the character of the Renaissance in England . Such has been the course it has hitherto kept ; such is the faith we still profess . Nevertheless , with all the authority and an- tiquity of our national ...
... words could more vividly express the character of the Renaissance in England . Such has been the course it has hitherto kept ; such is the faith we still profess . Nevertheless , with all the authority and an- tiquity of our national ...
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... words stand for things , or that he should avail himself of the commonly received names , ideas , and even rites of ... word honour ' may be said to be one which Englishmen pride themselves on un- derstanding by instinct . It has a ...
... words stand for things , or that he should avail himself of the commonly received names , ideas , and even rites of ... word honour ' may be said to be one which Englishmen pride themselves on un- derstanding by instinct . It has a ...
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... words , he acknowledges that in the instance of the merchant something oc - phers , at all events , will consent to our using curs which he does not understand , and he nevertheless persists in assuming that the only things to be ...
... words , he acknowledges that in the instance of the merchant something oc - phers , at all events , will consent to our using curs which he does not understand , and he nevertheless persists in assuming that the only things to be ...
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Page 11 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 105 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Page 119 - And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but...
Page 89 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 187 - With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms...
Page 19 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent : 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 108 - And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone...
Page 15 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 105 - Calypso once each heart alarm'd, Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still, and stranger flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create, As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.
Page 280 - On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees...