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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... Italian novelist ; sees into and lays hold of the motive , the idea , the human life which rises before him in vision , and which he then , by his art , embodies in the scenes and persons of a Play . And so he shows us men and women who ...
... Italian novelist ; sees into and lays hold of the motive , the idea , the human life which rises before him in vision , and which he then , by his art , embodies in the scenes and persons of a Play . And so he shows us men and women who ...
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... Italy , ' pub- lished in 1838 , told how a monk in a Dominican convent at Padua had said the very same words to him , when showing him a ' Last Supper ' in the Refectory there . And to this note ( as if in justification of the ...
... Italy , ' pub- lished in 1838 , told how a monk in a Dominican convent at Padua had said the very same words to him , when showing him a ' Last Supper ' in the Refectory there . And to this note ( as if in justification of the ...
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... Italian sky , must not have been ( as the Neapolitan says of his own lovely shore ) a piece of heaven fallen upon earth , ' a true Atlantis of Poesy ! 6 These elves and spirits , with Ariel at their head , represent the natural , or ...
... Italian sky , must not have been ( as the Neapolitan says of his own lovely shore ) a piece of heaven fallen upon earth , ' a true Atlantis of Poesy ! 6 These elves and spirits , with Ariel at their head , represent the natural , or ...
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... Italian work- shops , on terms of friendship with the potter who moulded and the painter who decorated them . Clay with its marvellous durability preserves for us not only the ultimate design of the worker , but his first sketch ; his ...
... Italian work- shops , on terms of friendship with the potter who moulded and the painter who decorated them . Clay with its marvellous durability preserves for us not only the ultimate design of the worker , but his first sketch ; his ...
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... Italian restorer , by the outworn views of Winckelmann and Lessing , and the conventional proprieties of the Vatican and the Capitol . The ancient Athenians were not classical in the narrow sense in which the age of the Antonines , or ...
... Italian restorer , by the outworn views of Winckelmann and Lessing , and the conventional proprieties of the Vatican and the Capitol . The ancient Athenians were not classical in the narrow sense in which the age of the Antonines , or ...
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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...
Page 402 - I was to have gone there on Saturday, in joy and prosperity, to receive my friends. My dogs will wait for me in vain. It is foolish — but the thoughts of parting from these dumb creatures have moved me more than any of the painful reflections I have put down. Poor things ! I must get them kind masters ! There may be yet those who, loving me, may love my dog, because it has been mine. I must end these gloomy forebodings, or I shall lose the tone of mind with which men should meet distress. I feel...
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.
Page 321 - A friend of yours and mine has very justly defined good breeding to be the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.
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.