The Quarterly Review, Volume 132John Murray, 1872 - English literature |
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... perhaps more than any other , demands an unusual combination of qualities of body as well as of mind , should show itself otherwise than at rare intervals ? Genius in any art can never be otherwise than rare ; and how rare it has been ...
... perhaps more than any other , demands an unusual combination of qualities of body as well as of mind , should show itself otherwise than at rare intervals ? Genius in any art can never be otherwise than rare ; and how rare it has been ...
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... perhaps , more than all , by his thorough finish . But a true artist , with whom his art was paramount and self but a subor- dinate consideration , would rather have courted the opportunity to vie with him in honourable rivalry , as he ...
... perhaps , more than all , by his thorough finish . But a true artist , with whom his art was paramount and self but a subor- dinate consideration , would rather have courted the opportunity to vie with him in honourable rivalry , as he ...
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... perhaps , the most perfect representation of any ancient poet in a modern lan- guage . He was the friend of Pitt and Canning ; and the high estimation in which he was held by Scott , Byron , Coleridge , and his other illustrious ...
... perhaps , the most perfect representation of any ancient poet in a modern lan- guage . He was the friend of Pitt and Canning ; and the high estimation in which he was held by Scott , Byron , Coleridge , and his other illustrious ...
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... perhaps generally known ; but his vresion of a fragment of Alcæus may be referred to as breathing the patriotism which thus early inspired his poetry . The two friends were separated for a time , on leaving Eton ; when Canning went to ...
... perhaps generally known ; but his vresion of a fragment of Alcæus may be referred to as breathing the patriotism which thus early inspired his poetry . The two friends were separated for a time , on leaving Eton ; when Canning went to ...
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... perhaps find least sympathy in the present day - Sir Bartle Frere observes : - The shafts of ridicule told with still greater effect on the more impressible classes , and helped to keep in the ministerial fold many a young literary ...
... perhaps find least sympathy in the present day - Sir Bartle Frere observes : - The shafts of ridicule told with still greater effect on the more impressible classes , and helped to keep in the ministerial fold many a young literary ...
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Page 400 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 436 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Page 530 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 330 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 529 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 444 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Page 428 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 460 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 412 - To life obscured, which were a fair dismission, But throw'st them lower than thou didst exalt them high, Unseemly falls in human eye, Too grievous for the trespass or omission ; Oft leavest them to the hostile sword Of heathen and profane, their carcasses To dogs and fowls a prey, or else captived ; Or to the unjust tribunals, under change of times, And condemnation of the ungrateful multitude.
Page 438 - But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me.