The National Review, Volumen2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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... existence est décidée , l'on ne pourroit sans un miracle trouver une femme digne de vous ; et une association d'un genre imparfait rappelle toujours la statue d'Horace , qui joint à une belle tête le corps d'un stupide pois- son . Vous ...
... existence est décidée , l'on ne pourroit sans un miracle trouver une femme digne de vous ; et une association d'un genre imparfait rappelle toujours la statue d'Horace , qui joint à une belle tête le corps d'un stupide pois- son . Vous ...
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... existence was that of Versail- les ! How gravely admirable to see the grand monarque shaved , and dressed , and powdered ; to look on and watch a great man carefully amusing himself with dreary trifles . Or do we not even now possess an ...
... existence was that of Versail- les ! How gravely admirable to see the grand monarque shaved , and dressed , and powdered ; to look on and watch a great man carefully amusing himself with dreary trifles . Or do we not even now possess an ...
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... existence of ordinary people ; the necessary little- nesses of necessary life , are little suited to his sublime narrative . Men on the Times feel this acutely ; it is most difficult at first to say many things in the huge imperial ...
... existence of ordinary people ; the necessary little- nesses of necessary life , are little suited to his sublime narrative . Men on the Times feel this acutely ; it is most difficult at first to say many things in the huge imperial ...
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... existence and form of civilisation itself , -it is evident that we must look rather for a comprehensive generality than a telling minuteness of delinea- tion . The history of a thousand years does not admit the pic- torial detail which ...
... existence and form of civilisation itself , -it is evident that we must look rather for a comprehensive generality than a telling minuteness of delinea- tion . The history of a thousand years does not admit the pic- torial detail which ...
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... existence of a supernatural Being . This would be very unjust ; his cold composed mind had nothing in common with the Jacob- inical outbreak of the next generation . He was no doubt a theist after the fashion of natural theology ; nor ...
... existence of a supernatural Being . This would be very unjust ; his cold composed mind had nothing in common with the Jacob- inical outbreak of the next generation . He was no doubt a theist after the fashion of natural theology ; nor ...
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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...