The North British Review, Volume 36W.P. Kennedy, 1862 - English literature |
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... ground with darkness ; but the pine , growing in scattered groups , leaves the glades between emerald - bright . Its gloom is all its own ; narrowing into the sky , it lets the sunshine strike down to the dew . And if ever a ...
... ground with darkness ; but the pine , growing in scattered groups , leaves the glades between emerald - bright . Its gloom is all its own ; narrowing into the sky , it lets the sunshine strike down to the dew . And if ever a ...
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... ground objects , from the dew of the grass , the flash of the cascade , the glitter of the birch trunk , or the fair daylight hues of darker things ( and joyfulness there is in all of them ) , there is yet a light which the eye ...
... ground objects , from the dew of the grass , the flash of the cascade , the glitter of the birch trunk , or the fair daylight hues of darker things ( and joyfulness there is in all of them ) , there is yet a light which the eye ...
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... grounds . Mr Ruskin , they say , is not only inconsistent in his judgment of pictures , and in his estimates of schools of art . That 1 If Mr Ruskin would be restored to this his youthful , and , as we think , well- founded admiration ...
... grounds . Mr Ruskin , they say , is not only inconsistent in his judgment of pictures , and in his estimates of schools of art . That 1 If Mr Ruskin would be restored to this his youthful , and , as we think , well- founded admiration ...
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... grounds of judgment , the judgments can scarcely be uniform . It is so hard to trace them on any stedfast principle , to mark with certainty their presence or their absence . So much , too , depends on ourselves . In some instances , we ...
... grounds of judgment , the judgments can scarcely be uniform . It is so hard to trace them on any stedfast principle , to mark with certainty their presence or their absence . So much , too , depends on ourselves . In some instances , we ...
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... ground of complaint against it — never saw any instance of oppression , but several of much kindness and consideration ' ( Stones of Venice , ' iii . Book iii . ) . Nor is this 1 ' Αττικοί , μόνοι δικαίως εὐγενεῖς αὐτόχθονες.- Vespa ...
... ground of complaint against it — never saw any instance of oppression , but several of much kindness and consideration ' ( Stones of Venice , ' iii . Book iii . ) . Nor is this 1 ' Αττικοί , μόνοι δικαίως εὐγενεῖς αὐτόχθονες.- Vespa ...
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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...