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 3
... criticism or denying him our sympathy , while he relates , as Schopenhauer would say , his figured representation of ... critics , who saw him struggling but could not imagine that his antagonist was a god- like figure . All they beheld ...
... criticism or denying him our sympathy , while he relates , as Schopenhauer would say , his figured representation of ... critics , who saw him struggling but could not imagine that his antagonist was a god- like figure . All they beheld ...
Pagina 29
... critics , united in their way of looking at the question , but in their conclusions opposed . 6 For while both agree in regarding Wagner as ' a power of civilization , ' " civilization , ' they differ as to the quality Wagner and the ...
... critics , united in their way of looking at the question , but in their conclusions opposed . 6 For while both agree in regarding Wagner as ' a power of civilization , ' " civilization , ' they differ as to the quality Wagner and the ...
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... criticism of the value and authen- ticity of those materials . His pages on the Rebellion have less of narrative unity than Froude's , and scattered as they are through three out of the five Irish volumes of the cabinet edition of the ...
... criticism of the value and authen- ticity of those materials . His pages on the Rebellion have less of narrative unity than Froude's , and scattered as they are through three out of the five Irish volumes of the cabinet edition of the ...
Pagina 37
... criticism has found in the speculations of his subtle and ingenious intellect , the spark from which was fired the torch that , handed from Knox to Jebb , from Jebb to Hugh James Rose , and from Rose to Keble and Newman , kindled the ...
... criticism has found in the speculations of his subtle and ingenious intellect , the spark from which was fired the torch that , handed from Knox to Jebb , from Jebb to Hugh James Rose , and from Rose to Keble and Newman , kindled the ...
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... . ' Of the position he occupied at Westminster , a political opponent and unfriendly critic -- Earl Russell - wrote , after a parliamentary experience of of sixty years , that he had never known two 50 Ireland in '98 .
... . ' Of the position he occupied at Westminster , a political opponent and unfriendly critic -- Earl Russell - wrote , after a parliamentary experience of of sixty years , that he had never known two 50 Ireland in '98 .
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Pagina 582 - University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Pagina 277 - The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " — we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
Pagina 580 - ... 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 229 - 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...
Pagina 55 - ... in the Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Commons on the Rebellion, of passages tending to implicate Grattan in the United Irish conspiracy.
Pagina 431 - 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 249 - ... 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 431 - ... Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies, And my soul only sees thy soul its own ? O love, my love ! if I no more should see Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee, Nor image of thine eyes in any spring, — How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope, The wind of Death's imperishable wing ? SONNET V.
Pagina 14 - 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 53 - And kingship, tumbled from its seat, 'Stood prostrate' at the people's feet; Where (still to use your Lordship's tropes) The level of obedience slopes Upward and downward, as the stream Of hydra faction kicks the beam...