Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volumes 1-2Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... ancient institutions , trembled to see them thus approached by rash hands , whose talents for ruin were sufficiently certain , but whose powers of reconstruction had yet to be tried . On the other hand , the easy triumph of a people ...
... ancient institutions , trembled to see them thus approached by rash hands , whose talents for ruin were sufficiently certain , but whose powers of reconstruction had yet to be tried . On the other hand , the easy triumph of a people ...
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productions of ancient or modern times . The fascination of language was never more conspicuously exhibited ; the thoughts are striking and beau- tiful ; and the illustrations partake of the richness and grandeur of the scenes from ...
productions of ancient or modern times . The fascination of language was never more conspicuously exhibited ; the thoughts are striking and beau- tiful ; and the illustrations partake of the richness and grandeur of the scenes from ...
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... ancient and honourable existence , that the people of Poland are thus eager to array themselves in any desperate strife of which this may be proclaimed as the prize . We have shown the substantial and intole- rable evils which the ...
... ancient and honourable existence , that the people of Poland are thus eager to array themselves in any desperate strife of which this may be proclaimed as the prize . We have shown the substantial and intole- rable evils which the ...
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... ancient balance of the constitution . " To expose this fallacy , the causes are investigated which have produced an augmentation in the intellectual and moral power of the people . The supposition is ridiculed , that it can be checked ...
... ancient balance of the constitution . " To expose this fallacy , the causes are investigated which have produced an augmentation in the intellectual and moral power of the people . The supposition is ridiculed , that it can be checked ...
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... ancient forms and institutions , and hostile to the rights of pro- perty . These misrepresentations lead the Reviewer to discuss at consider- able length the subject of natural rights and duties , in the exposition of which great ...
... ancient forms and institutions , and hostile to the rights of pro- perty . These misrepresentations lead the Reviewer to discuss at consider- able length the subject of natural rights and duties , in the exposition of which great ...
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Page 231 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 341 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 197 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 266 - They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Page 317 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Page 61 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 231 - Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final...
Page 43 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Page 56 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture 'to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom.
Page 412 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!