The Quarterly Review, Volume 73John Murray, 1844 |
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Page 468 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 587 - Herbert, one of his attendants, he bade him employ more than usual care in dressing him, and preparing him for so great and joyful a solemnity. Bishop Juxon, a man endowed with the same mild and steady virtues by which the king himself was so much distinguished, assisted him in his devotions, and paid the last melancholy duties to his friend and sovereign.
Page 135 - Change for the American Notes, in Letters from London to New York, by an American Lady, reviewed, LXXIII.
Page 571 - Everything that is offered on the other side is scrutinized with the utmost severity; every suspicious circumstance is a ground for comment and invective; what cannot be denied is extenuated, or passed by without notice ; concessions even are sometimes made: but this insidious candour only increases the effect of the vast mass of sophistry.
Page 595 - Here, then, we are first to consider a book presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and, in all probability, long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin.
Page 33 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 595 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 595 - There is but one stage more ; which, though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will carry you a great way, even from earth to heaven." " I go," replied the king, " from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can take place.
Page 147 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song...
Page 210 - But these glories have all passed away like Ihe fearful smoke that issues from the throat of Popocatepetl, with no other memorial of their existence than the record on the page of the chronicler. " The great, the wise, the valiant, the beautiful, — alas ! where are they now?