The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... France . We cannot forget our obligations to a period which first displayed the adaptation of our language to nearly every variety of human thought ; and we cherish the works of Dryden for a national inspiration of the Satire and the ...
... France . We cannot forget our obligations to a period which first displayed the adaptation of our language to nearly every variety of human thought ; and we cherish the works of Dryden for a national inspiration of the Satire and the ...
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... France received generally the impress of the pure tragedy of the Greeks , while the most celebrated of the tragic works of Dryden assumed the form of the mixed drama of Romance . The use of rhyme is of far higher antiquity in this ...
... France received generally the impress of the pure tragedy of the Greeks , while the most celebrated of the tragic works of Dryden assumed the form of the mixed drama of Romance . The use of rhyme is of far higher antiquity in this ...
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... France in the seventeenth century . But , considered in this point of view , it involves the question of our possession of a national literature . For it is certain that the whole course of English poetry , between the ages of Chaucer ...
... France in the seventeenth century . But , considered in this point of view , it involves the question of our possession of a national literature . For it is certain that the whole course of English poetry , between the ages of Chaucer ...
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... France , whose intellectual merit was as great as its conformity to the age of its composition was exact , necessarily declined before the stiff etiquette and artificial morality of the Court of Versailles . It may be asserted perhaps ...
... France , whose intellectual merit was as great as its conformity to the age of its composition was exact , necessarily declined before the stiff etiquette and artificial morality of the Court of Versailles . It may be asserted perhaps ...
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... France , should applaud the Drama of the sixteenth century for a similar approximation to the scenic arrangements of the Athenian stage . Such arrange- ments might afford greater scope for the development of his- trionic art ; but they ...
... France , should applaud the Drama of the sixteenth century for a similar approximation to the scenic arrangements of the Athenian stage . Such arrange- ments might afford greater scope for the development of his- trionic art ; but they ...
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Page 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Page 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Page 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Page 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Page 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Page 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Page 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Page 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Page 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!