The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1890 - English literature |
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... speak of continuity through this period . But the continuity is that of English life . The art of the sixteenth and the following centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a reality at Eton . We can no ...
... speak of continuity through this period . But the continuity is that of English life . The art of the sixteenth and the following centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a reality at Eton . We can no ...
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... speak more gravely , the Church as it was in ancient days , in which so many genera- tions of Eton boys worshipped , and which was a haven of rest from the turbulence of their school life . We can only guess at the place where the ...
... speak more gravely , the Church as it was in ancient days , in which so many genera- tions of Eton boys worshipped , and which was a haven of rest from the turbulence of their school life . We can only guess at the place where the ...
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... speak of himself as having * The cocked hat , by the way , which Keate was the last Head Master to wear , and from which Hawtrey had a special dispensation from William IV . , was the Court hat , wore ceremonially by the Head Master ...
... speak of himself as having * The cocked hat , by the way , which Keate was the last Head Master to wear , and from which Hawtrey had a special dispensation from William IV . , was the Court hat , wore ceremonially by the Head Master ...
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... speak with authority on subjects of which he knows no more than ordinary outside observers . He devotes a page to the vindication of Bismarck's imaginary opposition to Sir R. Morier's mission to Berlin . As a matter of fact , the ...
... speak with authority on subjects of which he knows no more than ordinary outside observers . He devotes a page to the vindication of Bismarck's imaginary opposition to Sir R. Morier's mission to Berlin . As a matter of fact , the ...
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... speaking , this description of the battle of Sedan is a digression from the Crown Prince and the Imperial Crown . ' But its force and vividness , dissipated though they necessarily are in our imperfect version , plead its excuse . Our ...
... speaking , this description of the battle of Sedan is a digression from the Crown Prince and the Imperial Crown . ' But its force and vividness , dissipated though they necessarily are in our imperfect version , plead its excuse . Our ...
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Page 117 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 113 - These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 94 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
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Page 121 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
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Page 403 - I find my dogs' feet on my knees. I hear them whining and seeking me everywhere — this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your heart, and many a poor fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread.
Page 115 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 534 - Mr. Speaker or the Chairman, after having called the attention of the House, or of the committee, to the conduct of a member, who persists in irrelevance, or tedious repetition either of his own arguments, or of the arguments used by other members in debate, may direct him to discontinue his speech.