The Quarterly Review, Volume 187William 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, 1898 |
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Pagina 10
... less generous than lovable , free from envy , and open to impressions of a greatness unattainable to the finest of executants . Long ago , Wagner , who had learned by much . suffering to be timid and suspicious in the presence of ...
... less generous than lovable , free from envy , and open to impressions of a greatness unattainable to the finest of executants . Long ago , Wagner , who had learned by much . suffering to be timid and suspicious in the presence of ...
Pagina 24
... less violent . We owe Bayreuth to the enamoured and beau- tiful harp - bearer of this new rhapsodist . He is the kingly figure standing on its threshold , in whose earnest gaze we seem to learn what mysteries await us within . We cannot ...
... less violent . We owe Bayreuth to the enamoured and beau- tiful harp - bearer of this new rhapsodist . He is the kingly figure standing on its threshold , in whose earnest gaze we seem to learn what mysteries await us within . We cannot ...
Pagina 30
... less effeminate existence than he saw around him , held that Wagner was teaching men to be contented with their sensations - that he was filling them with passive pleasure , instead of rousing them to exertion , or calling out the ...
... less effeminate existence than he saw around him , held that Wagner was teaching men to be contented with their sensations - that he was filling them with passive pleasure , instead of rousing them to exertion , or calling out the ...
Pagina 34
... less a history than a collection of historical mate- rials , illustrated with copious extracts , and accompanied by an elaborate and always judicial criticism of the value and authen- ticity of those materials . His pages on the ...
... less a history than a collection of historical mate- rials , illustrated with copious extracts , and accompanied by an elaborate and always judicial criticism of the value and authen- ticity of those materials . His pages on the ...
Pagina 49
... less harsh estimate of the actual motives and ulterior aims of the founders of the movement than that which has just been quoted , it is of course no less true that the revolutionary fervour of the leaders was not fully shared by all ...
... less harsh estimate of the actual motives and ulterior aims of the founders of the movement than that which has just been quoted , it is of course no less true that the revolutionary fervour of the leaders was not fully shared by all ...
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Pagina 228 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Pagina 143 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Pagina 276 - October last, at a special meeting of the ' Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control/ a presentation was made to Mr.
Pagina 579 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Pagina 13 - MUSIC is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite; we look for moments, across the cloudy elements, into the eternal Sea of Light, when song leads and inspires us. Serious nations, all nations that can still listen to the mandate of Nature, have prized song and music as the highest; as a vehicle for worship, for prophecy, and for whatsoever in them was divine.
Pagina 430 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Pagina 233 - I am able, with yet happier and calmer heart than ever heretofore, to enforce its simplest assurance of Faith, that the knowledge of what is beautiful leads on, and is the first step, to the knowledge of the things which are lovely and of good report ; and that the laws, the life, and the joy of beauty in the material world of God, are as eternal and sacred parts of His creation as, in the world of spirits, virtue ; and in the world of angels, praise.
Pagina 248 - ... originality, and less even of that extreme simplicity and lowliness of tone which wavered so prettily, in the Lyrical Ballads, between silliness and pathos. We have imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton here; engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers...
Pagina 84 - But supposing, which is the real case with regard to man, that this creature is not antecedently convinced of a supreme intelligence, benevolent, and powerful, but is left to gather such a belief from the appearances of things; this entirely alters the case, nor will he ever find any reason for such a conclusion. He may be fully convinced of the narrow limits of his understanding ; but this will not help him in forming an inference concerning the goodness of superior powers, since he must form that...