The Quarterly Review, Volume 131John Murray, 1871 - English literature |
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... English country gentlemen , owing to bad roads and inefficient means of travelling - the grammar schools of our country towns furnished the only means for the training and education of the gentry and richer citizens throughout the ...
... English country gentlemen , owing to bad roads and inefficient means of travelling - the grammar schools of our country towns furnished the only means for the training and education of the gentry and richer citizens throughout the ...
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... English - no deference to classical models , which all consented to accept . No long - established rules imposed a wholesome restraint on the teeming invention and luxuriant wit of the Elizabethan writers . But while the Reformation had ...
... English - no deference to classical models , which all consented to accept . No long - established rules imposed a wholesome restraint on the teeming invention and luxuriant wit of the Elizabethan writers . But while the Reformation had ...
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... English worthies would thus be handed down which would be sought in vain in the chronicles of Hall or of Hollinshed . For , unlike the wars of modern times , the civil wars of England were fought by the tenants and labourers of the lord ...
... English worthies would thus be handed down which would be sought in vain in the chronicles of Hall or of Hollinshed . For , unlike the wars of modern times , the civil wars of England were fought by the tenants and labourers of the lord ...
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... English literature , as represented by the drama , experienced a sudden and entire transformation , such as no other period affords the like . Nor are the dramas of Shakspeare further removed from those of his iminediate predecessors ...
... English literature , as represented by the drama , experienced a sudden and entire transformation , such as no other period affords the like . Nor are the dramas of Shakspeare further removed from those of his iminediate predecessors ...
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... English language . They refined it to those higher purposes of poetical literature for which , even at their time , and still more emphatically before their time , it was con- sidered wholly unsuitable . The world was still divided ...
... English language . They refined it to those higher purposes of poetical literature for which , even at their time , and still more emphatically before their time , it was con- sidered wholly unsuitable . The world was still divided ...
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Page 26 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 372 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 378 - Vere, You pine among your halls and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease, You know so ill to deal with time, You needs must play such pranks as these. Clara, Clara Vere de Vere, If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read, Or teach the orphan-girl to sew, Pray Heaven for a human heart, And let the...
Page 379 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 388 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 376 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space: I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 388 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 26 - It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the office of their care and pain to have collected and published them...
Page 369 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 371 - t was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.