The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... Cæsar to those of Napier and of von Moltke , there have been frequent instances of distinguished soldiers who have wielded the pen with power . Nevertheless , it must be admitted that the habit of mind which tends towards literary ...
... Cæsar to those of Napier and of von Moltke , there have been frequent instances of distinguished soldiers who have wielded the pen with power . Nevertheless , it must be admitted that the habit of mind which tends towards literary ...
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... Cæsar with that hero . It is curious , how- ever , as containing an attempt , like Pope's Essay , to vindicate the ways of God to man . In a full council convoked by Jove , that supreme deity deigns to explain to some extent the ...
... Cæsar with that hero . It is curious , how- ever , as containing an attempt , like Pope's Essay , to vindicate the ways of God to man . In a full council convoked by Jove , that supreme deity deigns to explain to some extent the ...
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... , ' The Nile , whose fountain was sought by Cæsar and Sesostris , according to Ovid hid his head in fear of the fires of Phaethon , and has never again revealed it . Claudian discusses the matter in never 150 Claudian .
... , ' The Nile , whose fountain was sought by Cæsar and Sesostris , according to Ovid hid his head in fear of the fires of Phaethon , and has never again revealed it . Claudian discusses the matter in never 150 Claudian .
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... Cæsar , the famous epileptic , overcame his disease by infinite marches , bareheaded under the sun ; and , dreading fresh attacks of a not unlike description , Nietzsche took staff in hand , travelled up and down Italy , was now at ...
... Cæsar , the famous epileptic , overcame his disease by infinite marches , bareheaded under the sun ; and , dreading fresh attacks of a not unlike description , Nietzsche took staff in hand , travelled up and down Italy , was now at ...
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... Cæsar Borgia and his friends laugh themselves to death over the spectacle of the weak man unarmed who thinks all happiness comprised in peace , and dare not risk his life to advance his fortune ? Borgia , it would seem , was the true ...
... Cæsar Borgia and his friends laugh themselves to death over the spectacle of the weak man unarmed who thinks all happiness comprised in peace , and dare not risk his life to advance his fortune ? Borgia , it would seem , was the true ...
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Page 306 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Page 305 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
Page 341 - Parliament that the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England...
Page 426 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 410 - THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 417 - LIS, the point upwards: next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Page 406 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 168 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not; but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile: all else deep snow and ice...
Page 436 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Page 316 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.