The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... death ; it is their declared purpose to free their fellow - men from the disgrace of life and restore them to the One . ' They meet in dark cellars and plot assassination . All faithful members of the Order abhor the notion of raising ...
... death ; it is their declared purpose to free their fellow - men from the disgrace of life and restore them to the One . ' They meet in dark cellars and plot assassination . All faithful members of the Order abhor the notion of raising ...
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... Death is terrible , inevitably ; the aim of life is to meet it willingly , as the ultimate sacrifice , the vanishing - point in the sacred ecstasy of pursuit . Minsky wrote a play to prove his thesis ; but it must be confessed that he ...
... Death is terrible , inevitably ; the aim of life is to meet it willingly , as the ultimate sacrifice , the vanishing - point in the sacred ecstasy of pursuit . Minsky wrote a play to prove his thesis ; but it must be confessed that he ...
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... Death , ' the legend of Berthe au Grand Pied ; and ' Vanka the Seneschal and the Page Jehan , ' an ironical contrast of the Russian and the Romantic ways of making love ; a modern drawing - room piece , ' Love , ' his only failure ; and ...
... Death , ' the legend of Berthe au Grand Pied ; and ' Vanka the Seneschal and the Page Jehan , ' an ironical contrast of the Russian and the Romantic ways of making love ; a modern drawing - room piece , ' Love , ' his only failure ; and ...
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... death by a bore disguised as a major poet in a frock coat . 6 6 Zinovyeva - Annibal , a woman , is chiefly remarkable for a very virile plainness of speech . Her Tuneful Ass ' ( 1907 ) is a fantasia on Midsummer Night's Dream , ' in ...
... death by a bore disguised as a major poet in a frock coat . 6 6 Zinovyeva - Annibal , a woman , is chiefly remarkable for a very virile plainness of speech . Her Tuneful Ass ' ( 1907 ) is a fantasia on Midsummer Night's Dream , ' in ...
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... death . Perhaps this is only pretence . Tchekhof was only laughing at them when he said : ' Our decadents pretend to be sickly , but in reality they are robust mujiks ' ; but he was characteristically kind and honest when he added ...
... death . Perhaps this is only pretence . Tchekhof was only laughing at them when he said : ' Our decadents pretend to be sickly , but in reality they are robust mujiks ' ; but he was characteristically kind and honest when he added ...
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Page 528 - Hence it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman, to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined, and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him ; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His...
Page 395 - O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air— That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars!— The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.
Page 457 - That a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair Waits me there In the turret whence the charioteers caught soul For the goal, When the king looked, where she looks now, breathless, dumb Till I come. But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts, — and then, All the men!
Page 534 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 165 - Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship— a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night; gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.
Page 191 - ... advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented...
Page 170 - But we can see him, an obscure conqueror of fame, tearing himself out of the arms of a jealous love at the sign, at the call of his exalted egoism. He goes away from a living woman to celebrate his pitiless wedding with a shadowy ideal of conduct.
Page 399 - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth. And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing, never vanishes. To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro' heaven, Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, Thou...
Page 167 - Siamese navy; and in all they said - in their actions, in their looks, in their persons - could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence.
Page 457 - Never any more, While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, Mine may strive : Bitterly we re-embrace, Single still. n. Was it something said, Something done, Vexed him ? was it touch of hand, Turn of head ? Strange ! that very way Love begun : I as little understand Love's decay.