The Quarterly Review, Volume 200William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1904 |
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... carried out the wish to write a chronicle of English poetry ; and Warton's was the first . It broke fresh ground , and showed the wealth of old romance ; but its contribution , being mainly one of knowledge , has been absorbed ; it was ...
... carried out the wish to write a chronicle of English poetry ; and Warton's was the first . It broke fresh ground , and showed the wealth of old romance ; but its contribution , being mainly one of knowledge , has been absorbed ; it was ...
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... carry out the ideal of Goethe - he pursued with somewhat exclusive zeal , but with delicacy of touch , and not at all in the external , indiscriminate style that is the danger of this kind of work . His chief book traces the origins of ...
... carry out the ideal of Goethe - he pursued with somewhat exclusive zeal , but with delicacy of touch , and not at all in the external , indiscriminate style that is the danger of this kind of work . His chief book traces the origins of ...
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... carry so great a conclusion . The dislocation of ' The Tempest ' from its accepted place not only mis- interprets the evidence of language , versification , temper , and subject , but rests upon the frail support of the pro- logue to ...
... carry so great a conclusion . The dislocation of ' The Tempest ' from its accepted place not only mis- interprets the evidence of language , versification , temper , and subject , but rests upon the frail support of the pro- logue to ...
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... carry the pilgrim all that way , and are not absent in Mr Saintsbury . We do not care to compare him with the other scholar we have reviewed here , save to say that their gifts curiously supplement one another . Like all good travellers ...
... carry the pilgrim all that way , and are not absent in Mr Saintsbury . We do not care to compare him with the other scholar we have reviewed here , save to say that their gifts curiously supplement one another . Like all good travellers ...
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... carry with it an increase of artistic seriousness and depth of purpose . It is the last - named qualities , spiritual in their scope , that determine finally the value of the work ; and it is only when their due prominence is given them ...
... carry with it an increase of artistic seriousness and depth of purpose . It is the last - named qualities , spiritual in their scope , that determine finally the value of the work ; and it is only when their due prominence is given them ...
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Page 459 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 444 - The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought my shrivelled heart Could have recovered greenness?
Page 461 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 446 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 360 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 258 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 2 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Page 356 - I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 632 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 360 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.