The Quarterly Review, Volume 142John Murray, 1876 - English literature |
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... century and more , perhaps no man in this country , with the exception of Mr. Pitt and of Lord Byron , had attained at thirty - two the fame of Macaulay . His parliamentary success and his literary eminence were each of them enough , as ...
... century and more , perhaps no man in this country , with the exception of Mr. Pitt and of Lord Byron , had attained at thirty - two the fame of Macaulay . His parliamentary success and his literary eminence were each of them enough , as ...
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... century ? Or even before the present day ? Let any one , who desires to test its accuracy , try to translate it into a foreign language . Fonblanque , who was laudably jealous for our noble mother tongue , protested against this usage ...
... century ? Or even before the present day ? Let any one , who desires to test its accuracy , try to translate it into a foreign language . Fonblanque , who was laudably jealous for our noble mother tongue , protested against this usage ...
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... centuries , we are to regard the public as the patron of literary men ; and as a patron abler than any that went before to heap both fame and fortune on its favourites . Setting aside works of which the primary purpose was enter ...
... centuries , we are to regard the public as the patron of literary men ; and as a patron abler than any that went before to heap both fame and fortune on its favourites . Setting aside works of which the primary purpose was enter ...
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... century . A proof yet more conclusive of a mind , in which the theological sense had never been trained or developed , is supplied by his own contemptuous language respecting a treatise which has ever been regarded as among the gems of ...
... century . A proof yet more conclusive of a mind , in which the theological sense had never been trained or developed , is supplied by his own contemptuous language respecting a treatise which has ever been regarded as among the gems of ...
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... century , the writer who , as Mr. Trevelyan truly says , teaches men by millions , has gravely taught them that the study of the nature of good , of the end for which we live , of the dis- cipline of pain , of the mastery to be gained ...
... century , the writer who , as Mr. Trevelyan truly says , teaches men by millions , has gravely taught them that the study of the nature of good , of the end for which we live , of the dis- cipline of pain , of the mastery to be gained ...
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Page 478 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 528 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 561 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Page 468 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 329 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 478 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Page 206 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 342 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 199 - d to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet...
Page 419 - But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan : thou art an offence unto Me : for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.