The Quarterly Review, Volume 128John Murray, 1870 - English literature |
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... Roman ; and lastly , whereas the real Lucretius moves with a long sustained flow , the Lucretius of Mr. Tennyson breaks out in a series of spasmodic , unconnected gasps . A few beautiful descriptive lines , and one or two touches of ...
... Roman ; and lastly , whereas the real Lucretius moves with a long sustained flow , the Lucretius of Mr. Tennyson breaks out in a series of spasmodic , unconnected gasps . A few beautiful descriptive lines , and one or two touches of ...
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... Roman Emperors , with the object of showing that these were much less serious than Christian writers have commonly fancied , and opposed no great obstacle to its ultimate triumph . The question is an interesting one , but it belongs ...
... Roman Emperors , with the object of showing that these were much less serious than Christian writers have commonly fancied , and opposed no great obstacle to its ultimate triumph . The question is an interesting one , but it belongs ...
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... Roman society was in the last throes of dissolution ; or gone on to the days of Hildebrand and William the Conqueror , when the new feudal and ecclesiastical society of the Middle Ages was definitely formed by the com- bination of Roman ...
... Roman society was in the last throes of dissolution ; or gone on to the days of Hildebrand and William the Conqueror , when the new feudal and ecclesiastical society of the Middle Ages was definitely formed by the com- bination of Roman ...
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... Roman Empire were inti- mately related to the Church , not simply because the Church supplied in itself an admirable model of an organised body , but also because it had done so much to educate men in habits of obedience ; ' as if ...
... Roman Empire were inti- mately related to the Church , not simply because the Church supplied in itself an admirable model of an organised body , but also because it had done so much to educate men in habits of obedience ; ' as if ...
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... half to see his blunder ; this makes it all the more odd that he should have allowed the passage in the text to stand . men's men's moral practice ? Why did the Roman Empire , 58 Mr. Lecky's History of European Morals .
... half to see his blunder ; this makes it all the more odd that he should have allowed the passage in the text to stand . men's men's moral practice ? Why did the Roman Empire , 58 Mr. Lecky's History of European Morals .
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Page 383 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 386 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Page 336 - It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon bible...
Page 455 - Till the last trumpet ; for charitable prayers, Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her : Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments and the bringing home Of bell and burial.
Page 10 - And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 13 - Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea. There the pursuer could pursue no more, And he that fled no further fly the King...
Page 10 - Redder than any rose, a joy to me. For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl — • No larger, tho...
Page 311 - I defy the Pope and all his laws ... if God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou doest.
Page 196 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-Wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me" (Lockhart's Life tf Scott, chap.
Page 333 - Latin; no, nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch, neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.