The Quarterly Review, Volume 131John Murray, 1871 - English literature |
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... ment the female shows any disposition to coyness . Mr. Darwin has no facts to bring forward to prove the exercise of any choice on the part of female apes , but gives in support of his views the following remarkable passage : - Must we ...
... ment the female shows any disposition to coyness . Mr. Darwin has no facts to bring forward to prove the exercise of any choice on the part of female apes , but gives in support of his views the following remarkable passage : - Must we ...
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... ment within . ' But here again we have no need to call in the aid of reason . ' The monkeys had had the group of sensations ' folded paper ' associated with the other groups— ' noise and movement ' and ' stung fingers . ' The second ...
... ment within . ' But here again we have no need to call in the aid of reason . ' The monkeys had had the group of sensations ' folded paper ' associated with the other groups— ' noise and movement ' and ' stung fingers . ' The second ...
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... ment , and the financial anomaly - it may be observed that the second only is irremediable . As confidence in the Government increases , it may well be hoped that the Hungarians themselves will recognize the inconvenience of a double ...
... ment , and the financial anomaly - it may be observed that the second only is irremediable . As confidence in the Government increases , it may well be hoped that the Hungarians themselves will recognize the inconvenience of a double ...
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... ment , and claim this glory for themselves . Hence one of the main difficulties with which the Cisleithanian Government had to deal was already solved for Graf Andrassy and his colleagues . For this reason , it will be the main object ...
... ment , and claim this glory for themselves . Hence one of the main difficulties with which the Cisleithanian Government had to deal was already solved for Graf Andrassy and his colleagues . For this reason , it will be the main object ...
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... ment of the nation in the very bud , and to talk of freedom was a mere mockery . There were two ways of dissolving the unholy treaty with Rome . Either the Concordat could be directly abrogated and a new set of laws introduced affirming ...
... ment of the nation in the very bud , and to talk of freedom was a mere mockery . There were two ways of dissolving the unholy treaty with Rome . Either the Concordat could be directly abrogated and a new set of laws introduced affirming ...
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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.