The Quarterly Review, Volume 132John Murray, 1872 - English literature |
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... means to entrap her audience . She disdained to apply to any of the petty resources of trickish minds , in order to startle and surprise her hearers . There was no habitual abruptness , no harshness about her . You never caught her ...
... means to entrap her audience . She disdained to apply to any of the petty resources of trickish minds , in order to startle and surprise her hearers . There was no habitual abruptness , no harshness about her . You never caught her ...
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... means money value , and in these days when even art among artists becomes subordinate to lust of gain , the theatre is not likely to be exempt from the prevailing vice . • And yet , if we are not to continue calmly under the shame of ...
... means money value , and in these days when even art among artists becomes subordinate to lust of gain , the theatre is not likely to be exempt from the prevailing vice . • And yet , if we are not to continue calmly under the shame of ...
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... means . The plays are good of their kind , the actors equal to the arena they have to work in , and the tasks committed to their care , and the harmonious and agreeable effect which results delights a not too exacting audience , and ...
... means . The plays are good of their kind , the actors equal to the arena they have to work in , and the tasks committed to their care , and the harmonious and agreeable effect which results delights a not too exacting audience , and ...
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... means , and never commit the absurdity of producing the plays of Shakspeare or of any other first - class dramatist , until he is sure of artists equal to the task , or at least in thorough sympathy with it . Below this line a whole ...
... means , and never commit the absurdity of producing the plays of Shakspeare or of any other first - class dramatist , until he is sure of artists equal to the task , or at least in thorough sympathy with it . Below this line a whole ...
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... means fail , we are found to prevail , When a Peacock or Pheasant is sent as a present . ' The only other extract , for which we can afford space , is a portion of the dialogue between Bacchus and the Chorus of Frogs , as he rows in ...
... means fail , we are found to prevail , When a Peacock or Pheasant is sent as a present . ' The only other extract , for which we can afford space , is a portion of the dialogue between Bacchus and the Chorus of Frogs , as he rows in ...
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Page 400 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 436 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Page 530 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 330 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 529 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 444 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Page 428 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 460 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 412 - To life obscured, which were a fair dismission, But throw'st them lower than thou didst exalt them high, Unseemly falls in human eye, Too grievous for the trespass or omission ; Oft leavest them to the hostile sword Of heathen and profane, their carcasses To dogs and fowls a prey, or else captived ; Or to the unjust tribunals, under change of times, And condemnation of the ungrateful multitude.
Page 438 - But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me.