Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time with a Preliminary Dissertation and Explanatory Notes. IVBaudry, 1835 - 392 páginas |
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... living writers have escaped their " gibes and jeers ; " that they have attempted to destroy " at one fell swoop " the rising celebrity of every aspiring candidate for li- terary fame ; and that all the names , now most venerated in the ...
... living writers have escaped their " gibes and jeers ; " that they have attempted to destroy " at one fell swoop " the rising celebrity of every aspiring candidate for li- terary fame ; and that all the names , now most venerated in the ...
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... living principle . Neither is poetry music ; so that , to try it by the laws , either of metre or of tone , must necessarily be fallacious . It is well enough , as a matter of amusement , to ascertain how the lines of our great poets ...
... living principle . Neither is poetry music ; so that , to try it by the laws , either of metre or of tone , must necessarily be fallacious . It is well enough , as a matter of amusement , to ascertain how the lines of our great poets ...
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... living amongst and tainted by the prejudices of the age , or else by one who writes at a distant date , when he is without ocular proof or oral testimony , and is left to guess between the jarring or imperfect accounts of partial ...
... living amongst and tainted by the prejudices of the age , or else by one who writes at a distant date , when he is without ocular proof or oral testimony , and is left to guess between the jarring or imperfect accounts of partial ...
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... living man out of the fragments of his dissecting - room . In both cases , the vital principle eludes the finest instru- ments , and vanishes in the very instant in which its seat is touched . Hence those who , trusting to their ...
... living man out of the fragments of his dissecting - room . In both cases , the vital principle eludes the finest instru- ments , and vanishes in the very instant in which its seat is touched . Hence those who , trusting to their ...
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... living character was introduced by name , as Cleon or Socrates , in the old comedy , we may suppose that the mask was a striking , although not a flattering portrait . We cannot doubt that these masks were made with great care , and ...
... living character was introduced by name , as Cleon or Socrates , in the old comedy , we may suppose that the mask was a striking , although not a flattering portrait . We cannot doubt that these masks were made with great care , and ...
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Página 318 - twere, anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 317 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Página 313 - Bui we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Página 412 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Página 314 - It is not noon — the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail. The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Página 344 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too...
Página 399 - ... imitation of their great leader. For some years the Minerva press sent forth no novel without a mysterious, unhappy, Lara-like peer. The number of hopeful undergraduates and medical students who became things of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation.
Página 380 - The young peer had great intellectual powers ; yet there was an unsound part in his mind. He had naturally a generous and feeling heart : but his temper was wayward and irritable.
Página 332 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! HUMAN LIFE.
Página 316 - One of the blessed — and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence — in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality — A future like the past.