The National Review, Volume 17Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1863 - Periodicals |
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... results if it cannot see processes , and disbelieves the divine life of man if it cannot trace its history , often shows a partial sense of the danger of its own position . There is something terrible in staking so much on a few facts ...
... results if it cannot see processes , and disbelieves the divine life of man if it cannot trace its history , often shows a partial sense of the danger of its own position . There is something terrible in staking so much on a few facts ...
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... result in dis- tortion and end in premature death ; for in any one metre , at any given time , in any given language , there is only a certain accumulation and reservoir to tap , greater in one metre and less in another , as the case ...
... result in dis- tortion and end in premature death ; for in any one metre , at any given time , in any given language , there is only a certain accumulation and reservoir to tap , greater in one metre and less in another , as the case ...
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... results , one way or the other , to our species , for any language but the impassioned cry of hope , the solemn denunciation , the groan of horror and despair . At length the flames died down , the smoke cleared away , and it gradually ...
... results , one way or the other , to our species , for any language but the impassioned cry of hope , the solemn denunciation , the groan of horror and despair . At length the flames died down , the smoke cleared away , and it gradually ...
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... results could be accounted for by the activity of commonplace emotions working in a host of inferior minds , and had a side which was far more ludicrous than either terrific or sublime . A few striking personages stand of course ...
... results could be accounted for by the activity of commonplace emotions working in a host of inferior minds , and had a side which was far more ludicrous than either terrific or sublime . A few striking personages stand of course ...
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... result of literature . They had nothing about them of early association and comradeship . His introduction into the Pope circle was perhaps the most influential event in his life . This he obtained by writing expressly for it . In his ...
... result of literature . They had nothing about them of early association and comradeship . His introduction into the Pope circle was perhaps the most influential event in his life . This he obtained by writing expressly for it . In his ...
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Page 307 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 293 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 312 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 531 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 311 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 190 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 318 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 307 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 318 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 305 - I go, and it is done : the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.