National Review, Том 11Robert Theobold, 1860 |
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... passions , and himself untouched by the ambition of wealth or influence which absorbed them in the struggle of society , he enjoyed the best opportunities for observation , and he used them diligently . Horace's observation of character ...
... passions , and himself untouched by the ambition of wealth or influence which absorbed them in the struggle of society , he enjoyed the best opportunities for observation , and he used them diligently . Horace's observation of character ...
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... passion under the form of a calm irony . Juvenal , as well as Horace , smiles as he chides and sings ; but it is the smile of sadness , and his voice is full of those subdued tears which give to song so much of its charm . Our ...
... passion under the form of a calm irony . Juvenal , as well as Horace , smiles as he chides and sings ; but it is the smile of sadness , and his voice is full of those subdued tears which give to song so much of its charm . Our ...
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... passions . In quite recent days , even though guided by a great statesman , it has been compelled to submit to the humiliation of learning that there are other forces in the State which are sometimes stronger and more popular than its ...
... passions . In quite recent days , even though guided by a great statesman , it has been compelled to submit to the humiliation of learning that there are other forces in the State which are sometimes stronger and more popular than its ...
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... passionate impulses , and the cor- ruption of the Lower House ; to secure a calm and careful exa- mination of new measures ; to procure revision and reconsider- ation when popular excitement , or false hopes , or dazzling but shallow ...
... passionate impulses , and the cor- ruption of the Lower House ; to secure a calm and careful exa- mination of new measures ; to procure revision and reconsider- ation when popular excitement , or false hopes , or dazzling but shallow ...
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... passion why such men should be suffered to defeat measures eagerly desired by the country ? Why should not other men of better sense be added to them at once , to outvote their folly ? In other words , they would be at once prevented ...
... passion why such men should be suffered to defeat measures eagerly desired by the country ? Why should not other men of better sense be added to them at once , to outvote their folly ? In other words , they would be at once prevented ...
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Стр. 454 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
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Стр. 231 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
Стр. 297 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Стр. 453 - It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
Стр. 461 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Стр. 453 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...
Стр. 514 - Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. With narrative Illustrations, by ROBERT DALE OWEN. Post 8vo, Js. 6d. Spiritualism. — Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
Стр. 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...
Стр. 478 - ... it would be, that the great want which mankind labors under, at this present period, is — Sleep ! The world should recline its vast head on the first convenient pillow, and take an age-long nap.