The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 90A. Constable, 1849 |
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... in practice we do find men , on whom punishment and kindness are thrown away alike ; and who are equally inaccessible to the pre- cepts of religion , its hopes and fears . Liberty 26 July , Transportation as it now is .
... in practice we do find men , on whom punishment and kindness are thrown away alike ; and who are equally inaccessible to the pre- cepts of religion , its hopes and fears . Liberty 26 July , Transportation as it now is .
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... equally in their favour ; and Mr. Andrews , surgeon of the ship Marion , says : The Parkhurst boys are ' excellent . ' On the other hand , the Deputy - Assistant Commis- sary General at Port Philip , in the letter to Earl Grey of the ...
... equally in their favour ; and Mr. Andrews , surgeon of the ship Marion , says : The Parkhurst boys are ' excellent . ' On the other hand , the Deputy - Assistant Commis- sary General at Port Philip , in the letter to Earl Grey of the ...
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... equally interested , the object of the dramatist is equally at- tained ; and thus both French and English tragedy are , and ought to be , respectively admired . Not to inquire too curiously into the causes of the distinction , we may ...
... equally interested , the object of the dramatist is equally at- tained ; and thus both French and English tragedy are , and ought to be , respectively admired . Not to inquire too curiously into the causes of the distinction , we may ...
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... equally true that . our general appreciation of Shakspeare is much more intelligent than in the last century . 6 Of Mr. Hudson's Lectures , ' though our friends in America have deemed them worthy of a second edition , and the North ...
... equally true that . our general appreciation of Shakspeare is much more intelligent than in the last century . 6 Of Mr. Hudson's Lectures , ' though our friends in America have deemed them worthy of a second edition , and the North ...
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... equally free from most of the vices to which French literature seems now peculiarly exposed . The historians of the modern French school have an incon- testable excellence in their skilful arrangement , and power of rapid analysis . But ...
... equally free from most of the vices to which French literature seems now peculiarly exposed . The historians of the modern French school have an incon- testable excellence in their skilful arrangement , and power of rapid analysis . But ...
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Page 392 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the...
Page 394 - 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 words...
Page 394 - Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm: Then springs the crowning race of humankind. May these things be!' Sighing she spoke 'I fear They will not.
Page 420 - I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Page 323 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 493 - The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.
Page 353 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 422 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Page 393 - The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 392 - My spirit closed with Ida's at the lips ; Till back I fell, and from mine arms she rose Glowing all over noble shame ; and all Her falser self slipt from her like a. robe, And left her woman, lovelier in her mood Than in her mould that other, when she came From barren deeps to conquer all with love ; And down the streaming crystal dropt ; and she Far-fleeted by the purple island-sides, Naked, a double light in air and wave, To meet her Graces, where they...