The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... Church ) , we gather that it was treated seriously at the time ; but it need not detain us now , for it has long held no other place in literature than that of a curiosity . Of all the studies which have been produced on the lines laid ...
... Church ) , we gather that it was treated seriously at the time ; but it need not detain us now , for it has long held no other place in literature than that of a curiosity . Of all the studies which have been produced on the lines laid ...
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... Church by the Gnostic heresy ; it was too rigidly enforced in practice by Gregory the Great , with his insistence upon the profanity of all learning that was not consecrated by Church authority . Here there are two irreconcilable ...
... Church by the Gnostic heresy ; it was too rigidly enforced in practice by Gregory the Great , with his insistence upon the profanity of all learning that was not consecrated by Church authority . Here there are two irreconcilable ...
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... church was looking at Beatrice , but he seemed to observers to be looking at another lady , who was placed in a direct line between his eye and the real object of his attention . The second picture is where the beautiful Joan - for the ...
... church was looking at Beatrice , but he seemed to observers to be looking at another lady , who was placed in a direct line between his eye and the real object of his attention . The second picture is where the beautiful Joan - for the ...
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... Church of Christ . That such identification is intended by the author of the Vita Nuova ' is a point which we cannot afford to leave in uncertainty . Whatever variations of aspect Beatrice under- goes , they all merge in the Church as ...
... Church of Christ . That such identification is intended by the author of the Vita Nuova ' is a point which we cannot afford to leave in uncertainty . Whatever variations of aspect Beatrice under- goes , they all merge in the Church as ...
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... Church of Christ , the idea in the author's mind ; and therefore we cannot agree with D'Ancona that they are fitly explained by his formula , the ardent imagination of the poet exalts the beloved one into a being of a superior order ...
... Church of Christ , the idea in the author's mind ; and therefore we cannot agree with D'Ancona that they are fitly explained by his formula , the ardent imagination of the poet exalts the beloved one into a being of a superior order ...
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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.