The Quarterly Review, Volume 132John Murray, 1872 - English literature |
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... style , which it will be wise in no one to overlook who may hereafter have occasion to deal with the same subject . Mr. Fitzgerald , on the other hand , never saw any of the Kemble family , nay to all appearance never even saw any ...
... style , which it will be wise in no one to overlook who may hereafter have occasion to deal with the same subject . Mr. Fitzgerald , on the other hand , never saw any of the Kemble family , nay to all appearance never even saw any ...
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... style of Campbell and Boaden is condemned in his preface with overcharged severity , and this by a writer who , even in his Dedication , absurdity in inscribing to Mr. Sothern this history of the two great lights of the English stage ...
... style of Campbell and Boaden is condemned in his preface with overcharged severity , and this by a writer who , even in his Dedication , absurdity in inscribing to Mr. Sothern this history of the two great lights of the English stage ...
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... style radically false and artificial often meet , for a time at least , with greater success upon the stage than the quiet truth of real gifts and self - respecting artistic power . This must always be expected , for it requires ...
... style radically false and artificial often meet , for a time at least , with greater success upon the stage than the quiet truth of real gifts and self - respecting artistic power . This must always be expected , for it requires ...
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... style . What- " My ever dear friend Garrick , ' says Burke ( ' Letters on a Regicide Peace ' ) was the first of actors , because he was the most acute observer of nature I ever saw . ' ever disturbs the truth and consisteney of ...
... style . What- " My ever dear friend Garrick , ' says Burke ( ' Letters on a Regicide Peace ' ) was the first of actors , because he was the most acute observer of nature I ever saw . ' ever disturbs the truth and consisteney of ...
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... style of these great artists will seem as much too highly pitched as that of the others will be unquestionably too low ; and instead of a well balanced picture , we shall get one that is out of drawing , and harsh and dissonant in ...
... style of these great artists will seem as much too highly pitched as that of the others will be unquestionably too low ; and instead of a well balanced picture , we shall get one that is out of drawing , and harsh and dissonant in ...
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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.