The North British Review, Volume 42W. P. Kennedy, 1865 |
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Pagina 1
... century ago they were all the year round ; more silent indeed , since the indigenous population of these regions has within the century notably and beneficially decreased . To live ever in crowds has a social influence on man . To live ...
... century ago they were all the year round ; more silent indeed , since the indigenous population of these regions has within the century notably and beneficially decreased . To live ever in crowds has a social influence on man . To live ...
Pagina 2
... century ago , a sensible man , residing in " the West end , " would have as soon thought of going for change of air to Whitechapel or Wapping as to Glencoe or Braemar , where he and his neigh- bours now crowd in until they almost carry ...
... century ago , a sensible man , residing in " the West end , " would have as soon thought of going for change of air to Whitechapel or Wapping as to Glencoe or Braemar , where he and his neigh- bours now crowd in until they almost carry ...
Pagina 5
... century , the only considerable visits to Scot- land were those of the French auxiliaries , who returned home terrified by the hungry sordidness of the land and the barbarous independence of the common people . Clarendon tells us that ...
... century , the only considerable visits to Scot- land were those of the French auxiliaries , who returned home terrified by the hungry sordidness of the land and the barbarous independence of the common people . Clarendon tells us that ...
Pagina 8
... century and a half ago , to this which is now the most charming watering - place in the British dominions . Everybody is , or ought to be acquainted with the Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London ...
... century and a half ago , to this which is now the most charming watering - place in the British dominions . Everybody is , or ought to be acquainted with the Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London ...
Pagina 10
there is found bearing date somewhere in the first quarter of the eighteenth century a book on any matter of everyday life , full of vivacity , wit , humour , exactness of description , and worldly sagacity , it is attributed to Daniel ...
there is found bearing date somewhere in the first quarter of the eighteenth century a book on any matter of everyday life , full of vivacity , wit , humour , exactness of description , and worldly sagacity , it is attributed to Daniel ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 453 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Pagina 182 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...
Pagina 17 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Pagina 53 - Poet and saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven. The hard and rarest union which can be Next that of Godhead with humanity.
Pagina 28 - plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep: Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep.
Pagina 42 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pagina 172 - Generous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise, with reason on his side ? Such once were critics ; such the happy few, Athens and Rome in better ages knew. The mighty...
Pagina 164 - Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working -to a common result...
Pagina 169 - ... \the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them...
Pagina 455 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD...