The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 201A. Constable, 1905 |
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... forces set in motion by Henry VIII . could not be held in check . A popular movement deepens and widens the channels of religious sentiment and directs their course ; it does not alter the slope of the ground . Henry VIII . had let the ...
... forces set in motion by Henry VIII . could not be held in check . A popular movement deepens and widens the channels of religious sentiment and directs their course ; it does not alter the slope of the ground . Henry VIII . had let the ...
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... force them , unwilling or willing , to participate in his passion . For to the God - lover all monopolies dear to human love are forbidden . The love - gifts God bestows on him are his only by virtue of his readiness to share them with ...
... force them , unwilling or willing , to participate in his passion . For to the God - lover all monopolies dear to human love are forbidden . The love - gifts God bestows on him are his only by virtue of his readiness to share them with ...
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... force the daughters of rival chiefs ; to fill their ships with blood - wet gold . Odin or Christ , one or the other must be outcast and overthrown , one or the other outraged or enthroned . The whole Northern atmosphere was coloured by ...
... force the daughters of rival chiefs ; to fill their ships with blood - wet gold . Odin or Christ , one or the other must be outcast and overthrown , one or the other outraged or enthroned . The whole Northern atmosphere was coloured by ...
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... force which you need there for the protection of Unionists whether black or white . ' 6 6 The coloured man has now been free for forty years , and in the opinion of the average Southern white has made no progress whatsoever . This ...
... force which you need there for the protection of Unionists whether black or white . ' 6 6 The coloured man has now been free for forty years , and in the opinion of the average Southern white has made no progress whatsoever . This ...
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... force once removed , they revolted . No attempt had been honestly made to govern the liberated ' peoples on the lines of their national sentiment . Accordingly we find the newly constituted republics in Italy , Cisalpine , " * Quoted by ...
... force once removed , they revolted . No attempt had been honestly made to govern the liberated ' peoples on the lines of their national sentiment . Accordingly we find the newly constituted republics in Italy , Cisalpine , " * Quoted by ...
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Page 461 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Page 215 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 452 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Page 515 - I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding.
Page 457 - O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 134 - And forasmuch as nothing can be so plainly set forth, but doubts may arise in the use and practice of the same; to appease all such diversity (if any arise) and for the resolution of all doubts, concerning the manner how to understand, do and execute the things contained in this Book...
Page 505 - It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
Page 177 - Into that forest farre they thence him led, Where was their dwelling in a pleasant glade With MOUNTAINS round about environed, And MIGHTY WOODS which did the valley shade, And like a stately theatre it made...
Page 180 - Shure that, making way By sweet Clonmell, adornes rich Waterford; The next, the stubborne Newre whose waters gray By faire Kilkenny and...
Page 118 - The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. If we may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party, of the good cause which prospers by his credit and suffers by his disgrace.