The Quarterly Review, Volume 142John Murray, 1876 - English literature |
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... letters will supply the deficiencies of the biographer . ' • And the promise thus conveyed he redeems in some nine hundred and fifty pages , which are too few rather than too many . In the greater part of the work , he causes Lord ...
... letters will supply the deficiencies of the biographer . ' • And the promise thus conveyed he redeems in some nine hundred and fifty pages , which are too few rather than too many . In the greater part of the work , he causes Lord ...
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... letter to his father at p . 150 of vol . i . All minds seem to be perfectly made up as to the certainty of Catholic Emancipation having come at last . This very slovenly form of speech is now coming in upon us like a flood , • through ...
... letter to his father at p . 150 of vol . i . All minds seem to be perfectly made up as to the certainty of Catholic Emancipation having come at last . This very slovenly form of speech is now coming in upon us like a flood , • through ...
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... letters did Macaulay display that faculty of the higher criticism , which depends upon certain refined perceptions and the power of subtle analysis . His analysis was always rough , hasty , and sweeping , and his perceptions robust . By ...
... letters did Macaulay display that faculty of the higher criticism , which depends upon certain refined perceptions and the power of subtle analysis . His analysis was always rough , hasty , and sweeping , and his perceptions robust . By ...
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... letter from pointing out what I must admit to be a gross impropriety of language in my book ; an impropriety of a sort rare , I hope , with me . It shall be corrected , and I am obliged to the fellow , little as I like him . ' If then ...
... letter from pointing out what I must admit to be a gross impropriety of language in my book ; an impropriety of a sort rare , I hope , with me . It shall be corrected , and I am obliged to the fellow , little as I like him . ' If then ...
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... letter - paper , so the word English ' is as it were in the water - mark of every leaf of Macaulay's writing . His country was not the Empire , nor was it the United Kingdom . It was not even Great Britain , though he was descended in ...
... letter - paper , so the word English ' is as it were in the water - mark of every leaf of Macaulay's writing . His country was not the Empire , nor was it the United Kingdom . It was not even Great Britain , though he was descended in ...
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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.