The Quarterly Review, Volume 228William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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... perhaps she might be found not wholly unworthy of a place in the same shelf with Miss Burney and Miss Edgeworth . Alas for both these , gone by now into the spare bedroom , and become the dusty curiosities of literature ! Not even Jane ...
... perhaps she might be found not wholly unworthy of a place in the same shelf with Miss Burney and Miss Edgeworth . Alas for both these , gone by now into the spare bedroom , and become the dusty curiosities of literature ! Not even Jane ...
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... Perhaps the best of all is Knightley , not only in relation to Emma but also in himself . " Nor must it be brought against Jane Austen that she does not lard her work with sociology , religion or meta- physics . Such divagations may ...
... Perhaps the best of all is Knightley , not only in relation to Emma but also in himself . " Nor must it be brought against Jane Austen that she does not lard her work with sociology , religion or meta- physics . Such divagations may ...
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... Perhaps Jane Austen never quite recovered this first fine careless rapture ; still , the book has other signs of youth . It has a vice - word , ' tolerably , ' and its dialogue retains traces of Fanny Burney . Compare the heavy ...
... Perhaps Jane Austen never quite recovered this first fine careless rapture ; still , the book has other signs of youth . It has a vice - word , ' tolerably , ' and its dialogue retains traces of Fanny Burney . Compare the heavy ...
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... perhaps , because these were the crucial years of the Napoleonic war , during which its stress was most felt , and concentra- tion on novel - writing was found to be impossible ? Much more probably she was simply fretted with removals ...
... perhaps , because these were the crucial years of the Napoleonic war , during which its stress was most felt , and concentra- tion on novel - writing was found to be impossible ? Much more probably she was simply fretted with removals ...
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... perhaps under the influence of the unhappiness through which she had been passing . None of her books is quite so brilliant in parts , none shows a greater technical mastery , a more audacious facing of realities , a more certain touch ...
... perhaps under the influence of the unhappiness through which she had been passing . None of her books is quite so brilliant in parts , none shows a greater technical mastery , a more audacious facing of realities , a more certain touch ...
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Page 310 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 233 - A little time that we may fill Or with such good works or such ill As loose the bonds or make them strong Wherein all manhood suffers wrong. By rose-hung river and light-foot rill There are who rest not ; who think long Till they discern as from a hill At the sun's hour of morning song, Known of souls only, and those souls free, The sacred spaces of the sea.
Page 451 - With a view to the establishment of a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby...
Page 309 - ... at least one college in each state, ' where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 237 - Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown, The just Fate gives; Whoso takes the world's life on him and his own lays down, He, dying so, lives. "Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the wronged world's weight And puts it by, It is well with him suffering, though he face man's fate; How should he die? 'Seeing death has no part in him any more, no power Upon his head; He has bought his eternity with a little hour, And is not dead.
Page 231 - Slumber and sorrow and pleasure, Vision of virtue and crime; Till consummate with conquering eyes, A soul disembodied, it rise From the body transfigured of time...
Page 397 - Government and people are under to these hardworking capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some instances the planters and the fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction of roads and other public works, and to pay for all the other costs of administration.
Page 311 - ... natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States...
Page 238 - And ye shall die before your thrones be won. — Yea, and the changed world and the liberal sun Shall move and shine without us, and we lie Dead ; but if she too move on earth, and live, But if the old world with all the old irons rent Laugh and give thanks, shall we be not content ? Nay, we shall rather live, we shall not die, Life being so little, and death so good to give.
Page 397 - ... as contractors they constructed nearly all the Government buildings, most of the roads and bridges, railways and waterworks. They brought all the capital into the country when Europeans feared to take the risk ; they were the traders and shopkeepers, and it was their steamers which first opened regular communication between the ports of the colony and the ports of the Malay States.