The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 22Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1839 |
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... sense of their interest in the preservation of national antiquities , and of its closely concerning their own honour to see that the works of their ancestors suffered no damage from the hands of sacrilegious pos- terity . For , if we ...
... sense of their interest in the preservation of national antiquities , and of its closely concerning their own honour to see that the works of their ancestors suffered no damage from the hands of sacrilegious pos- terity . For , if we ...
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ever may be the religious part of the question , was in one sense at least a most serious national calamity , and greatly retarded the march of civilization in our islands . As far as art and architec- ture are concerned , leaving out ...
ever may be the religious part of the question , was in one sense at least a most serious national calamity , and greatly retarded the march of civilization in our islands . As far as art and architec- ture are concerned , leaving out ...
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... day . It is no small praise for a community , if devoid of the genius or in- clination to invent , to have at least the taste and sense to preserve what it possesses of the good and the beautiful ; Restoration of the Fine Arts.
... day . It is no small praise for a community , if devoid of the genius or in- clination to invent , to have at least the taste and sense to preserve what it possesses of the good and the beautiful ; Restoration of the Fine Arts.
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... idea of the nature and spirit of novel and romance ? Do they , who for so many years could irresistibly captivate our feelings and sympathies , even in spite of good taste and the disgust of the moral sense ; do they D 2 Malkolm . 35 PAGE.
... idea of the nature and spirit of novel and romance ? Do they , who for so many years could irresistibly captivate our feelings and sympathies , even in spite of good taste and the disgust of the moral sense ; do they D 2 Malkolm . 35 PAGE.
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and the disgust of the moral sense ; do they no longer know that interest , curiosity , and sympathy , hourly increasing until the con- summation is attained , are as essential to romance as action to the drama ? Here is matter for an ...
and the disgust of the moral sense ; do they no longer know that interest , curiosity , and sympathy , hourly increasing until the con- summation is attained , are as essential to romance as action to the drama ? Here is matter for an ...
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Page 103 - Be strong, fear not : behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence ; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness _shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 106 - And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Page 372 - Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits; an army employed in executing an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
Page 76 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Page 373 - He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was, by turns, a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity.
Page 373 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Page 373 - There was indeed another species of greatness, which displayed itself in boldly conceiving a bad measure, and undauntedly pursuing it to its accomplishment. But had Mr Hastings the merit of exhibiting either of these descriptions of greatness, — even of the latter?
Page 74 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 131 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.
Page 121 - The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also, that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.