The Nineteenth Century, Volume 5

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Henry S. King & Company, 1879
 

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Page 742 - mean, But nature makes that mean ; so o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. Now we believe the conditions of modern life unconsciously destroy much of the art that nature makes in the form of the creative faculty, as well as that beauty of landscape which the
Page 416 - cooled by the same winter and summer ? 'If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we ore like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 384 - never so ceaselessly reiterated as among English Liberals during the past twelve months—' The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and the people love to have it so.' In this last melancholy confession there is a sharp sting. ' The people love to have it so
Page 406 - grandfather to whom the thought that he was a separate being had never been suggested ; then a father whom the thought had begun to trouble with Obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank
Page 831 - ever read those lines— For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind P—
Page 13 - do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. This article, sketchy as it is, and disproportioned to the important
Page 578 - my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day ¿that Pharaoh should have the fifth part ; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's. Were a system arranged by which our food-producers would
Page 746 - Wordsworth, in his sonnet to Haydon, says :— ' High is our calling, friend ; creative art (Whether the instrument of words she use Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues) Demands the service of a mind and heart Though sensitive, yet in their weakest part Heroically fashioned—to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely
Page 578 - your land for Pharaoh : lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field,
Page 413 - capacity of reflecting upon actions and characters, and making them an object to our thought,' with a view to approval or disapproval as the case may be. But so far as this is intended (as by Butler it was probably not) to get rid of determination by motives, it is plainly

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