The North British Review, Volume 13W.P. Kennedy, 1850 |
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Pagina 14
... truth of history , and leaves himself open to a reproach we abstain from using . We shall see immediately what is the weight due to his examination of every " print or pamphlet , memoir , history , or declaration published previously to ...
... truth of history , and leaves himself open to a reproach we abstain from using . We shall see immediately what is the weight due to his examination of every " print or pamphlet , memoir , history , or declaration published previously to ...
Pagina 19
... truth of the story , but the gratis dictum of tradition . He has himself told us of the trouble he had taken to get information of the facts from " per- sons who knew them . " If this be " tradition , " what is contem- porary evidence ...
... truth of the story , but the gratis dictum of tradition . He has himself told us of the trouble he had taken to get information of the facts from " per- sons who knew them . " If this be " tradition , " what is contem- porary evidence ...
Pagina 22
... truth , four of which were drawn from independent sources . If Mr. Aytoun has done no other good , he may at least congratulate himself on one thing - the in- vestigation he has forced upon his reviewers has done service to the cause of ...
... truth , four of which were drawn from independent sources . If Mr. Aytoun has done no other good , he may at least congratulate himself on one thing - the in- vestigation he has forced upon his reviewers has done service to the cause of ...
Pagina 28
... truth . It is needless to follow this cause farther than to say , that the Privy Council took part with Claverhouse . " The consult of the Privy Cabal , " says Fountainhall , " thought this rigor absolutely neces- sar to discourage all ...
... truth . It is needless to follow this cause farther than to say , that the Privy Council took part with Claverhouse . " The consult of the Privy Cabal , " says Fountainhall , " thought this rigor absolutely neces- sar to discourage all ...
Pagina 29
... truth and justice in the one case as in the other . Speaking of his Beloved , thus Bon Gaultier mourns , — " Better thou wert dead before me ; better , better that I stood Looking on thy murdered body , like the injured Daniel Good ...
... truth and justice in the one case as in the other . Speaking of his Beloved , thus Bon Gaultier mourns , — " Better thou wert dead before me ; better , better that I stood Looking on thy murdered body , like the injured Daniel Good ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 175 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 479 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 501 - twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Pagina 176 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
Pagina 119 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Pagina 493 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Pagina 500 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
Pagina 550 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet. Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Pagina 175 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.