Quarterly Review, Volume 110John Murray, 1861 - English literature |
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... important moment arrived , and De Quincey went through the first day's examination , which was conducted upon paper , and at that time consisted almost exclusively of scholarship , history , and whatever might be comprehended under the ...
... important moment arrived , and De Quincey went through the first day's examination , which was conducted upon paper , and at that time consisted almost exclusively of scholarship , history , and whatever might be comprehended under the ...
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... important subjects , combined with the evident conscientiousness with which his volumes teem , make us still look ... importance to his own impressions , reminiscences , and emotions . For these reasons we think the ' Selections ' might ...
... important subjects , combined with the evident conscientiousness with which his volumes teem , make us still look ... importance to his own impressions , reminiscences , and emotions . For these reasons we think the ' Selections ' might ...
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... ' The first is valuable as an attempt to rescue from popular obloquy a really important science . As the science which treats of the applica- tion of general principles in the presence of conflicting obligations tion 22 Thomas De Quincey .
... ' The first is valuable as an attempt to rescue from popular obloquy a really important science . As the science which treats of the applica- tion of general principles in the presence of conflicting obligations tion 22 Thomas De Quincey .
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... important : - " The Roman mind was great in the presence of man , mean in the presence of nature ; impotent to comprehend or to delineate the internal strife of passion , but powerful beyond any other national mind to display the energy ...
... important : - " The Roman mind was great in the presence of man , mean in the presence of nature ; impotent to comprehend or to delineate the internal strife of passion , but powerful beyond any other national mind to display the energy ...
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... important to obtain a whole view of the man , and to put our readers on their guard against his faults , as well as to awaken them to his merits . Now one fault De Quincey had , and we must add to a very considerable extent . That was ...
... important to obtain a whole view of the man , and to put our readers on their guard against his faults , as well as to awaken them to his merits . Now one fault De Quincey had , and we must add to a very considerable extent . That was ...
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Page 467 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 468 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 327 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 447 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 461 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 328 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever 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 456 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 296 - For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry : 'Proclaim the faults he would not show : Break lock and seal: betray the trust: Keep nothing sacred : 'tis but just The many-headed beast should know.
Page 441 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 542 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...