The Quarterly Review, Volume 142John Murray, 1876 - English literature |
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CONTENTS OF No. 283 . ART . I. - The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay . By his Nephew , George Otto Trevelyan , M.P. ... Letters , and Journals of George Ticknor . 2 vols . Boston , 1876 - VI . - 1 . Lectures on some Recent Advances in ...
CONTENTS OF No. 283 . ART . I. - The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay . By his Nephew , George Otto Trevelyan , M.P. ... Letters , and Journals of George Ticknor . 2 vols . Boston , 1876 - VI . - 1 . Lectures on some Recent Advances in ...
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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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... 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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... Letters , that even had there been no such thing as fame in his view , he still would have written for the sake of writing ; that for him reputation was to work , what pleasure properly is to virtue- the normal sequel , the grace and ...
... Letters , that even had there been no such thing as fame in his view , he still would have written for the sake of writing ; that for him reputation was to work , what pleasure properly is to virtue- the normal sequel , the grace and ...
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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 471 - 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 408 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 199 - 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 335 - 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 414 - Ad hanc enim ecclesiam propter potentiorem principalitatem necesse est omnem convenire ecclesiam, hoc est, eos qui sunt undique fideles, in qua semper ab his, qui sunt undique, conservata est ea quae est ab Apostolis traditio.
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Page 471 - 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 412 - 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.
Page 322 - Castle of Otranto,' a story translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 322 - 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.