The Quarterly Review, Volume 128John Murray, 1870 - English literature |
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... give us which no other writer can give us , and which constitutes his originality ? and how far has his present volume altered our estimate of him in these respects ? These are the questions which we must answer . Into the general ...
... give us which no other writer can give us , and which constitutes his originality ? and how far has his present volume altered our estimate of him in these respects ? These are the questions which we must answer . Into the general ...
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... give the pith of his oration , ' Pith ! why , it's all pith , ' the undazzled reader may still desire something more substantial . When we hear of Arthur's ' simple words of great authority , ' and ' large , divine , and comfortable ...
... give the pith of his oration , ' Pith ! why , it's all pith , ' the undazzled reader may still desire something more substantial . When we hear of Arthur's ' simple words of great authority , ' and ' large , divine , and comfortable ...
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... gives us what Pelleas actually said , and here is some of it : - ' Hiss , snake - I saw him there- Let the fox bark ... give them a prominent and conspicuous position when the character to whom they are assigned has , in other respects ...
... gives us what Pelleas actually said , and here is some of it : - ' Hiss , snake - I saw him there- Let the fox bark ... give them a prominent and conspicuous position when the character to whom they are assigned has , in other respects ...
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... give ornament , and scenery , and description when he liked ; only there was no place for these in the presence of so intense a calamity . And so Mr. Tennyson should have felt , and spared us lines like the following , pleasant enough ...
... give ornament , and scenery , and description when he liked ; only there was no place for these in the presence of so intense a calamity . And so Mr. Tennyson should have felt , and spared us lines like the following , pleasant enough ...
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terms about human nature in the abstract , he ought to give us somewhat of human nature in the concrete , and not fly off from this to inanimate nature ; more especially when the subject he has chosen involves deep and complex problems ...
terms about human nature in the abstract , he ought to give us somewhat of human nature in the concrete , and not fly off from this to inanimate nature ; more especially when the subject he has chosen involves deep and complex problems ...
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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 13 - as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steals, Them as 'as coats to their backs an' taakes their regular meals. Noa, but it's them as niver knaws wheer a meal's to be 'ad. Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad. XIII. Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun 'a bean a laazy lot, Fur work mun 'a gone to the gittin
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 331 - Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva. 15. Besides the said directors before mentioned, three or four of the most ancient and grave divines in either of the universities, not employed in translating, to be assigned by the Vice-Chancellor upon conference with the rest of the Heads to be overseers of the translations, as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the fourth rule above specified.
Page 338 - Another thing we think good to admonish thee of, gentle Reader, that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some learned men somewhere have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified the same thing in both places, (for there be...
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 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 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.