The Quarterly Review, Volumen164William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1887 |
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... interest as it is , rather à collection of materials for some future biographer's use , than a performance which can hope to take rank as the standard and monumental record of so noble and prominent a personage . For an achieve- ment of ...
... interest as it is , rather à collection of materials for some future biographer's use , than a performance which can hope to take rank as the standard and monumental record of so noble and prominent a personage . For an achieve- ment of ...
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... interests and encountered the vicis- situdes of life . But his unhappy experience in childhood brought with it a spiritual gain , to compensate for the loss of bright and elastic cheerfulness . There is abundance of evidence to show ...
... interests and encountered the vicis- situdes of life . But his unhappy experience in childhood brought with it a spiritual gain , to compensate for the loss of bright and elastic cheerfulness . There is abundance of evidence to show ...
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... interest ; eight children , the two eldest costing me more than 2001. a year each ; a ninth coming , and an allowance from my father of only 100l . annually more than I had as a bachelor at Oxford ! ' Turning back to Lord Ashley's ...
... interest ; eight children , the two eldest costing me more than 2001. a year each ; a ninth coming , and an allowance from my father of only 100l . annually more than I had as a bachelor at Oxford ! ' Turning back to Lord Ashley's ...
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... interests . My part is resolved . If Peel oppose me , nay , even if he does not support me , I will surrender interest and ambition to the cause ; I will persevere in it , God helping me , through storm and sunshine ; I will commit all ...
... interests . My part is resolved . If Peel oppose me , nay , even if he does not support me , I will surrender interest and ambition to the cause ; I will persevere in it , God helping me , through storm and sunshine ; I will commit all ...
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... interest in public affairs , alike forbade so unreasonable and useless a retirement . But it is clear that , from this time , a change passed over his life . He laboured as diligently as ever for his favourite objects , but without the ...
... interest in public affairs , alike forbade so unreasonable and useless a retirement . But it is clear that , from this time , a change passed over his life . He laboured as diligently as ever for his favourite objects , but without the ...
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Página 287 - Athens arose : a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver towers Of battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry...
Página 435 - To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent, that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place.
Página 267 - Placed at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence...
Página 436 - ... the similitude of the thoughts and passions of one man to the thoughts and passions of another, whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Página 307 - While day-light held The sky, the Poet kept mute conference With his still soul. At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him forth Into the darkness...
Página 55 - Royal office, for the advancement of religion and morality and the promotion of useful knowledge, to hold forth to all classes and denominations of our faithful subjects, without any distinction whatsoever, throughout our dominions encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education...
Página 40 - I never wanted articles on religious subjects half so much as articles on common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone."— DR.
Página 321 - I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed : Gods and men, we are all deluded thus ! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed : All wept, as I think both ye now would, If envy or age had not frozen your blood, At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.
Página 43 - ... makes good his ground as he goes, treading in the truth day by day into the ready memory, and wedging and tightening it into the expanding reason. It is a place which wins the admiration of the young by its celebrity, kindles the affections of the middleaged by its beauty, and rivets the fidelity of the old by its associations. It is a seat of wisdom, a light of the world, a minister of the faith, an Alma Mater of the rising generation.
Página 43 - It is the place to which a thousand schools make contributions; in which the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonist activity, and its judge in the tribunal of truth. It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge.