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... taken by his Majesty's Gov ernment to avert the cataclysm in Eastern Asia which thoughtful minds have been for many years anticipating— a cataclysm whose form and conditions the wisest have been the most reserved in forecasting , but ...
... taken by his Majesty's Gov ernment to avert the cataclysm in Eastern Asia which thoughtful minds have been for many years anticipating— a cataclysm whose form and conditions the wisest have been the most reserved in forecasting , but ...
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... taken of the presence of their forces ; but with regard to these proceedings as well as to all that had gone before , so long as they restricted their remon- strances to whispered moralities , they interposed no effective obstacle to ...
... taken of the presence of their forces ; but with regard to these proceedings as well as to all that had gone before , so long as they restricted their remon- strances to whispered moralities , they interposed no effective obstacle to ...
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... taken as such , are little if at all inferior to those of Bour- get . Taken merely as pictures of con- temporary Polish society , they are ex- quisite ; daintily humorous , with a dash of satire , not without pathos at times , and ...
... taken as such , are little if at all inferior to those of Bour- get . Taken merely as pictures of con- temporary Polish society , they are ex- quisite ; daintily humorous , with a dash of satire , not without pathos at times , and ...
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... taken up a theme of more general interest in his famous novel " Quo Vadis , " than he burst into full fame ; the success of the translated work , as might safely have been predicted , was instantaneous and immense . Of this novel we ...
... taken up a theme of more general interest in his famous novel " Quo Vadis , " than he burst into full fame ; the success of the translated work , as might safely have been predicted , was instantaneous and immense . Of this novel we ...
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... taken apart , have formed a whole , its unity being thus reduced to that of a mere aggregate . And we must also remark that once or twice , in the detailed de- scription of horrors , our author seems -though surely it is but seeming ...
... taken apart , have formed a whole , its unity being thus reduced to that of a mere aggregate . And we must also remark that once or twice , in the detailed de- scription of horrors , our author seems -though surely it is but seeming ...
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Page 234 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 275 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 235 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 160 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few-. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Page 685 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 238 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 40 - They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half...
Page 244 - I must own a particular obligation to him, for the most considerable part of the passages relating to this life, which I have here transmitted to the publick ; his veneration for the memory of Shakspeare having engaged him to make a journey into Warwickshire, on purpose to gather up what remains he could, of a name for which he had so great a veneration.* To the foregoing Accounts of SHAKSPEARE'S LIFE, / have only one passage to add..
Page 232 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Page 253 - ... pleasure according to their sweetness and melody ; nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.