The National Review, Volumen2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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... actions . To do him justice , he did not pretend to be a hero . " You know , " he wrote to his friend Deyverdun , " que je suis entré au parliament sans patriotisme , sans ambition , et que toutes mes vues se bornoient à la place ...
... actions . To do him justice , he did not pretend to be a hero . " You know , " he wrote to his friend Deyverdun , " que je suis entré au parliament sans patriotisme , sans ambition , et que toutes mes vues se bornoient à la place ...
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... actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them ; often much more so . It may be generally defined ... action accompanying the words : " Give , " it would say , " Augustus a chair : Zenobia , the humblest of your slaves ...
... actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them ; often much more so . It may be generally defined ... action accompanying the words : " Give , " it would say , " Augustus a chair : Zenobia , the humblest of your slaves ...
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... action can have all its details ; the canvas is so crowded that no figure has room to display itself effectively . From the nature of the subject , Gibbon's history is of the latter class ; the sweep of the narra- tive is so wide ; the ...
... action can have all its details ; the canvas is so crowded that no figure has room to display itself effectively . From the nature of the subject , Gibbon's history is of the latter class ; the sweep of the narra- tive is so wide ; the ...
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... action , no discretion in understanding ; there is no admirable quality except that , with whatever distortion , or confusion , or singularity , they at once accepted the great clear outline of belief in which to this day we live , move ...
... action , no discretion in understanding ; there is no admirable quality except that , with whatever distortion , or confusion , or singularity , they at once accepted the great clear outline of belief in which to this day we live , move ...
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... actions . We trust that we may very shortly possess a record by the same hand of the conquest of South America , and survey the civilisation of the Incas under the guidance of a writer who has so ably delineated the fiercer and less ...
... actions . We trust that we may very shortly possess a record by the same hand of the conquest of South America , and survey the civilisation of the Incas under the guidance of a writer who has so ably delineated the fiercer and less ...
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Página 35 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 19 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 465 - CAMPBELL : — THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS RELATION TO REMISSION OF SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Fourth and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 6s. "Among the first theological treatises of this generation.
Página 353 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 369 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 336 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Página 353 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Página 369 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Página 354 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Página 336 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...