The Quarterly Review, Volume 142John Murray, 1876 - English literature |
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... less peril to his manhood . He seems at all times to have held his head high above the stir and the fascination , which excite and enslave the weak . His mascu- line intelligence , and his ardent and single - minded devotion to ...
... less peril to his manhood . He seems at all times to have held his head high above the stir and the fascination , which excite and enslave the weak . His mascu- line intelligence , and his ardent and single - minded devotion to ...
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... less and less . Neither was social life allowed greatly to interfere with literary work , although here , too , his triumphs were almost unrivalled . Only one other attraction had power over him , and it was a lifelong power - the love ...
... less and less . Neither was social life allowed greatly to interfere with literary work , although here , too , his triumphs were almost unrivalled . Only one other attraction had power over him , and it was a lifelong power - the love ...
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... less than fourteen Books of the Odyssey ' ( vol . ii . 295 ) . His way of life , ' says Mr. Trevelyan , ' would have been deemed solitary by others ; but it was not solitary to him ' ( ii . 465 ) . This development blossomed into a ...
... less than fourteen Books of the Odyssey ' ( vol . ii . 295 ) . His way of life , ' says Mr. Trevelyan , ' would have been deemed solitary by others ; but it was not solitary to him ' ( ii . 465 ) . This development blossomed into a ...
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... less palpable , as the public appetite is less fastidious . Moreover , we are moving downwards in this respect . The pro- portion of middling to good writing constantly and rapidly increases . With the average of performance , the ...
... less palpable , as the public appetite is less fastidious . Moreover , we are moving downwards in this respect . The pro- portion of middling to good writing constantly and rapidly increases . With the average of performance , the ...
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... less than his best . His conception of the vocation was lofty to the utter- most ; his execution was in the like degree scrupulous and careful . Nowhere , perhaps , can we find a more true description of the motive which impels a great ...
... less than his best . His conception of the vocation was lofty to the utter- most ; his execution was in the like degree scrupulous and careful . Nowhere , perhaps , can we find a more true description of the motive which impels a great ...
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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.