The Quarterly Review, Volume 176William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1893 |
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... rewritten ; all emerge from the furnace like the refiner's gold , seven times purified . Even the appearance of affectation affectation is studiously avoided . The workmanship is as finished The Poetry of Tennyson . 13.
... rewritten ; all emerge from the furnace like the refiner's gold , seven times purified . Even the appearance of affectation affectation is studiously avoided . The workmanship is as finished The Poetry of Tennyson . 13.
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... gold of effective contrasts . From no other single poem can be gleaned a richer treasury of pictorial language , graphic similes , fine strokes of realistic detail , felicities of expression and of symbolism , epithets that reveal the ...
... gold of effective contrasts . From no other single poem can be gleaned a richer treasury of pictorial language , graphic similes , fine strokes of realistic detail , felicities of expression and of symbolism , epithets that reveal the ...
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... gold , or the cancelling of their own debts . They were counted as chattels , and sold backwards and forwards from hand to hand , with the estates to which they had become adscript . Then the upheaval of Christendom which is signified ...
... gold , or the cancelling of their own debts . They were counted as chattels , and sold backwards and forwards from hand to hand , with the estates to which they had become adscript . Then the upheaval of Christendom which is signified ...
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... gold and silver letters upon 12,000 tanned ox - hides ; and there six of the Achæmenian monarchs were laid to rest . But while the plat- form was devoted to the pomp and the residence of the sovereign , around it , and far over the ...
... gold and silver letters upon 12,000 tanned ox - hides ; and there six of the Achæmenian monarchs were laid to rest . But while the plat- form was devoted to the pomp and the residence of the sovereign , around it , and far over the ...
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... gold , and chairs in rows are treated in the same fashion . Glass cases round the room and on costly tables contain the fabulous treasures of the Shah and many of the Crown jewels . Possibly the accumulated splendours of pearls ...
... gold , and chairs in rows are treated in the same fashion . Glass cases round the room and on costly tables contain the fabulous treasures of the Shah and many of the Crown jewels . Possibly the accumulated splendours of pearls ...
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Page 82 - Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church ; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 14 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 430 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Page 24 - Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind ; It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill ; I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assign'd.
Page 334 - ... address to most of his profession. He kept always good clerks, he loved money, was smooth-tongued, gave good words, and seldom lost his temper. He was not worse than an infidel, for he provided plentifully for his family, but he loved himself better than them all. The neighbours reported that he was henpecked, which was impossible, by such a mild-spirited woman as his wife was.
Page 524 - Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue for the year ended 31st March, 1892, also shows that the rents of the landowners have been seriously diminished.
Page 109 - Israelites, that their hand was against every man, and every man's hand against them.
Page 333 - John's temper depended very much upon the air; his spirits rose and fell with the weather-glass. John was quick, and understood his business very well ; but no man alive was more careless in looking into his accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants.
Page 148 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 277 - ... we are losing the war. This is not a matter of opinion ; it is a matter of record, and it is a record which this committee has already published in countless volumes and transcripts and reports. The question today is not whether we are losing, but why. One prime example we might take out of the many, perhaps because it is the closest, is the island of Cuba, which has been...