The Twentieth Century, Volume 21Nineteenth Century and After, 1887 |
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... political or social faith . The poem is strictly a dramatic monologue . In its pages we have before us , though without the formal divisions of the drama , a group of personages , and the strain changes from the colour of thought ...
... political or social faith . The poem is strictly a dramatic monologue . In its pages we have before us , though without the formal divisions of the drama , a group of personages , and the strain changes from the colour of thought ...
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... political faculty , and confer imperial education . The repeal of the Navigation Laws was effected in 1849 , amidst a howl of prophecies that it would be found to have involved not merely the destruction of a harassed interest , ' but ...
... political faculty , and confer imperial education . The repeal of the Navigation Laws was effected in 1849 , amidst a howl of prophecies that it would be found to have involved not merely the destruction of a harassed interest , ' but ...
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... political causation which men vaguely call the force of events . We may often have slumbering in our minds the major premiss and the minor ; it is the demand of events that awakens us to the conclusion . Although the moral atmosphere ...
... political causation which men vaguely call the force of events . We may often have slumbering in our minds the major premiss and the minor ; it is the demand of events that awakens us to the conclusion . Although the moral atmosphere ...
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... political expedient or principle has yet been proposed , even by the leaders under whose standard he has enlisted ... politicians and agitators , ' reciting with emphasis an acute lecture on the abstract dynamics of rigid bodies in a ...
... political expedient or principle has yet been proposed , even by the leaders under whose standard he has enlisted ... politicians and agitators , ' reciting with emphasis an acute lecture on the abstract dynamics of rigid bodies in a ...
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... political power that took place in 1884-5 was the last chapter of the history of constitutional change . It ought to have been foreseen that new possessors of power , both Irish and British , would press for objects the pursuit of which ...
... political power that took place in 1884-5 was the last chapter of the history of constitutional change . It ought to have been foreseen that new possessors of power , both Irish and British , would press for objects the pursuit of which ...
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Page 654 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
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Page 14 - It is an inherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.
Page 274 - The eager spirit has darted from my hold, And, with the intemperate energy of love, Flies to the dear feet of Emmanuel; But, ere it reach them, the keen sanctity, Which with its effluence, like a glory, clothes And circles round the Crucified, has seized, And scorch'd, and shrivell'd it; and now it lies Passive and still before the awful Throne.
Page 406 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?