The Quarterly Review, Volumen 47William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1832 |
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... existing poem , or per- haps even by the rhapsodists themselves , for the purpose of more continuous recitation . Some of this criticism seems unnecessarily minute ; yet it is deserving of attention , at least from all favourers of ...
... existing poem , or per- haps even by the rhapsodists themselves , for the purpose of more continuous recitation . Some of this criticism seems unnecessarily minute ; yet it is deserving of attention , at least from all favourers of ...
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... existing is Jotham's parable of the trees electing a king . Then follows a very striking comparison between the prosperous condition of a just , and the miseries which afflict an unjust , com- munity ; and , in describing the felicity ...
... existing is Jotham's parable of the trees electing a king . Then follows a very striking comparison between the prosperous condition of a just , and the miseries which afflict an unjust , com- munity ; and , in describing the felicity ...
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... existing facts themselves , and through the medium of an intelligent traveller's optics , bring life near in utter na- kedness . ' In this spirit we have read Mrs. Trollope's book with interest and instruction - we may add , with great ...
... existing facts themselves , and through the medium of an intelligent traveller's optics , bring life near in utter na- kedness . ' In this spirit we have read Mrs. Trollope's book with interest and instruction - we may add , with great ...
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... existing earth , appear , at first sight , to have but a dim and remote resemblance to anything which is at present occurring . There seems to be little chance of identifying what is now going on with an era when the Andes were raised ...
... existing earth , appear , at first sight , to have but a dim and remote resemblance to anything which is at present occurring . There seems to be little chance of identifying what is now going on with an era when the Andes were raised ...
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... existing organic laws of the world . Such are the two very remarkable questions which at present offer themselves as the prominent points for the attention of the geological theorist ; and , in the discussion of these two doctrines , Mr ...
... existing organic laws of the world . Such are the two very remarkable questions which at present offer themselves as the prominent points for the attention of the geological theorist ; and , in the discussion of these two doctrines , Mr ...
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Página 337 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 145 - The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless; A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths. Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped They slept on the abyss, without a surge ; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave; The moon, their mistress, had expired before; The winds were withered...
Página 295 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Página 468 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 329 - The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions.
Página 11 - The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body.
Página 464 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
Página 97 - Man,' from a great part of which I could derive no instruction. When, for instance, I had read the chapter on theft, which from my infancy I had been taught was wrong, I was no more convinced that theft was wrong than belore ; so there was no accession of knowledge.
Página 96 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Página 22 - Their arms away they threw, and to the hills, For earth hath this variety from heaven Of pleasure situate in hill and dale...