Littell's Living Age, Volume 88Living Age Company Incorporated, 1866 |
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... Strong and devoted minds have piled up unread- able tomes , the result of their life - long studies and observations , yet few , save the professional and the initiated , attempt to in- vade the recondite sanctuary of their de- posit ...
... Strong and devoted minds have piled up unread- able tomes , the result of their life - long studies and observations , yet few , save the professional and the initiated , attempt to in- vade the recondite sanctuary of their de- posit ...
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... strong points of literature . In the opera of Macbetto the term " hell broth " in the witch scene , is rendered in Italian as polto inferno . " And on the opposite page of the libretto , it is served up afresh in English as " infernal ...
... strong points of literature . In the opera of Macbetto the term " hell broth " in the witch scene , is rendered in Italian as polto inferno . " And on the opposite page of the libretto , it is served up afresh in English as " infernal ...
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... strong voice Our country , with its vast territory , its and prompt and comprehensive intellect inviting regions , its various population , its may take precedence as an orator . But untrammelled freedom , looks forward now transpose ...
... strong voice Our country , with its vast territory , its and prompt and comprehensive intellect inviting regions , its various population , its may take precedence as an orator . But untrammelled freedom , looks forward now transpose ...
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... strong , that we ought wrote with a bold round hand , that was ex- not to be any longer personally strangers to tremely plain and caligraphic when he al- each other . You could then make up your lowed himself time for the work in hand ...
... strong , that we ought wrote with a bold round hand , that was ex- not to be any longer personally strangers to tremely plain and caligraphic when he al- each other . You could then make up your lowed himself time for the work in hand ...
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... strong ; and the novel had a remarkable hold upon the popular mind , quite apart from its literary ability . Of all Mrs. Gaskell's books , it was , I believe , the most largely sold , and the one which has commanded the most permanent ...
... strong ; and the novel had a remarkable hold upon the popular mind , quite apart from its literary ability . Of all Mrs. Gaskell's books , it was , I believe , the most largely sold , and the one which has commanded the most permanent ...
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Page 248 - When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die: ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 247 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 248 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 408 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 169 - For the writings of these Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system. They contributed to keep alive the heart in the head; gave me an indistinct, yet stirring and working presentiment, that all the products of the mere reflective faculty partook of death...
Page 242 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength...
Page 164 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 89 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war; upon church and state — not their alliance but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had 'inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Page 79 - Listen to the wond'rous story, Which they chant in hymns of joy ; " Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high...
Page 167 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.