The North British Review, Volume 14W. P. Kennedy, 1851 |
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... opinions with respect to taste and an agreeable style . Not till he wrote Sartor Resartus does the truth in regard to his own calling and business appear to have been at all fully revealed to him . Then , however , one of the most ...
... opinions with respect to taste and an agreeable style . Not till he wrote Sartor Resartus does the truth in regard to his own calling and business appear to have been at all fully revealed to him . Then , however , one of the most ...
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... opinion , have been here boldly repeated by him ; and , as a criminal is visited with severer punishment in proportion to the number of convictions already registered against him , so the critical public has deemed it right to come down ...
... opinion , have been here boldly repeated by him ; and , as a criminal is visited with severer punishment in proportion to the number of convictions already registered against him , so the critical public has deemed it right to come down ...
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... opinion . In this respect , we are disposed to believe , he reaches an absolutely heroic standard , the contemplation of which might shame many of us . Much as it might vex some of his critics to be told so , he , we verily believe ...
... opinion . In this respect , we are disposed to believe , he reaches an absolutely heroic standard , the contemplation of which might shame many of us . Much as it might vex some of his critics to be told so , he , we verily believe ...
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... opinions on this mat- ter are most explicitly stated in the conclusion of the first pam- phlet , where he introduces an imaginary discourse addressed from a conceivable Prime Minister to the entire pauper population of these realms ...
... opinions on this mat- ter are most explicitly stated in the conclusion of the first pam- phlet , where he introduces an imaginary discourse addressed from a conceivable Prime Minister to the entire pauper population of these realms ...
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... opinion ; and though Fletcher argued the matter seriously , and addressed himself with all his might to this very objection , " that he was bringing back slavery into the world , " he proba- bly only escaped the infamy of being reckoned ...
... opinion ; and though Fletcher argued the matter seriously , and addressed himself with all his might to this very objection , " that he was bringing back slavery into the world , " he proba- bly only escaped the infamy of being reckoned ...
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Page 323 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 505 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 507 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,
Page 451 - The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 356 - No more fatigue, no more distress ; Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place ; No groans to mingle with the songs Which warble from immortal tongues.
Page 483 - Come then, pure hands, and bear the head That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead. Ah yet, ev'n yet, if this might be, I, falling on his faithful heart, Would breathing thro...
Page 482 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 422 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 510 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Page 357 - But sacred, high, eternal noon ! 5 0 long-expected day, begin ! Dawn on these realms of woe and sin ; Fain would we leave this weary road, And sleep in death, to rest with God.