The North British Review, Volume 36W.P. Kennedy, 1862 - English literature |
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... expression , forms the softest of all forest scenery ; for other trees show their trunks and twisting boughs : but the pine grow- ing either in luxuriant mass or in happy isolation , allows no branch to be seen . Summit behind summit ...
... expression , forms the softest of all forest scenery ; for other trees show their trunks and twisting boughs : but the pine grow- ing either in luxuriant mass or in happy isolation , allows no branch to be seen . Summit behind summit ...
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... expression , be not of evanescent and shallow appealing , when compared with the still small voice of the level twilight behind purple hills , or the scarlet arch of dawn over the dark troublous - edged sea .'- Ib . , vol . ii . , p ...
... expression , be not of evanescent and shallow appealing , when compared with the still small voice of the level twilight behind purple hills , or the scarlet arch of dawn over the dark troublous - edged sea .'- Ib . , vol . ii . , p ...
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General Ignorance of Pictures . 13 Deep thinking and beautiful expression may , of course , be found even in volume v . ; for when did Mr Ruskin write a whole volume without thinking deeply , and expressing his thoughts beautifully ...
General Ignorance of Pictures . 13 Deep thinking and beautiful expression may , of course , be found even in volume v . ; for when did Mr Ruskin write a whole volume without thinking deeply , and expressing his thoughts beautifully ...
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... expression . Would that Mr Ruskin would apply to his own style that word which he tells us should be relieved out in deep letters of pure gold over the doors of every school of art ' - the word Moderation . Able critics have based this ...
... expression . Would that Mr Ruskin would apply to his own style that word which he tells us should be relieved out in deep letters of pure gold over the doors of every school of art ' - the word Moderation . Able critics have based this ...
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... expression . Unfortu- nately , the Graduate of Oxford is not much given to either . Especially is he deficient in the power of consecutive reasoning . He is very fond of rebuking others for being illogical ; and writes of himself , with ...
... expression . Unfortu- nately , the Graduate of Oxford is not much given to either . Especially is he deficient in the power of consecutive reasoning . He is very fond of rebuking others for being illogical ; and writes of himself , with ...
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Page 510 - Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this, — " He giveth His beloved sleep...
Page 362 - We will return no more ;' And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Page 337 - The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Page 355 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 355 - ... the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them.
Page 510 - Sleep soft, beloved !" we sometimes say, But have no tune to charm away Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep. But never doleful dream again. Shall break the happy slumber when He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Page 24 - And all those passings to and fro of fruitful shower and grateful shade, and all those visions of silver palaces built about the horizon, and voices of moaning winds and threatening thunders, and glories of coloured robe and cloven ray, are but to deepen in our hearts the acceptance, and distinctness, and dearness of the simple words, " Our Father, which art in heaven.
Page 211 - WHY art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair ? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For naught but what thy hap'piness could spare.
Page 335 - Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues...