The Quarterly Review, Volume 132John Murray, 1872 - English literature |
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... seems to an untutored eye more admirable than a Francia steeped in the beauty of profound but tempered feeling , and in colours of luminous purity , so the showy effects of a style radically false and artificial often meet , for a time ...
... seems to an untutored eye more admirable than a Francia steeped in the beauty of profound but tempered feeling , and in colours of luminous purity , so the showy effects of a style radically false and artificial often meet , for a time ...
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... seems to us , lies the crucial difficulty ; for it is obvious that , for the manager of such an establishment , a combination is required of such qualities as must at all times be hard to find . An actor he must not be , nor allied to ...
... seems to us , lies the crucial difficulty ; for it is obvious that , for the manager of such an establishment , a combination is required of such qualities as must at all times be hard to find . An actor he must not be , nor allied to ...
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... seems , from her note - book , to have carefully read and studied , would probably astonish the promoters of modern ladies ' col- leges by the ponderous , though varied , nature of the reading prescribed , embracing almost every branch ...
... seems , from her note - book , to have carefully read and studied , would probably astonish the promoters of modern ladies ' col- leges by the ponderous , though varied , nature of the reading prescribed , embracing almost every branch ...
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... seems highly probable that the first effort of Nature termi- nated in the production of VEGETABLES , and that these being abandoned to their own energies , by degrees detached themselves from the surface of the earth , and supplied ...
... seems highly probable that the first effort of Nature termi- nated in the production of VEGETABLES , and that these being abandoned to their own energies , by degrees detached themselves from the surface of the earth , and supplied ...
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... seems to have acted wisely in making Malta his permanent home . ' If in Malta , ' observes his biographer , he was cut off from the literary and political society of London , he would on the other hand , had he returned to England ...
... seems to have acted wisely in making Malta his permanent home . ' If in Malta , ' observes his biographer , he was cut off from the literary and political society of London , he would on the other hand , had he returned to England ...
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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.