The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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Page 89
... Bishops offers to give way , and , though at heart he is grieved and indignant , talks of his ' real pleasure in submitting . ' When young men trust him , he shrinks back in alarm , instead of thanking God and resolving to make himself ...
... Bishops offers to give way , and , though at heart he is grieved and indignant , talks of his ' real pleasure in submitting . ' When young men trust him , he shrinks back in alarm , instead of thanking God and resolving to make himself ...
Page 90
... Bishops disagreed with Newman's interpretation of early orthodoxy , he must bestir himself and fight . There is nothing surprising in the fact that as his self - confidence decayed , his mind at length turned to that Church which almost ...
... Bishops disagreed with Newman's interpretation of early orthodoxy , he must bestir himself and fight . There is nothing surprising in the fact that as his self - confidence decayed , his mind at length turned to that Church which almost ...
Page 91
... Bishop of Durham - that some day it will be and at a definite distance of time . As far as I can make out I am in the state of mind which divines call indifferentia , inculcating it as a duty to be set on nothing , but to be ready to ...
... Bishop of Durham - that some day it will be and at a definite distance of time . As far as I can make out I am in the state of mind which divines call indifferentia , inculcating it as a duty to be set on nothing , but to be ready to ...
Page 95
... Bishops framed a prayer for public use , beseeching God that grace might be granted to him and his friends to bear their trials with fortitude , but the prisoners had a royal time . The Governor and the deputy Governor turned out of ...
... Bishops framed a prayer for public use , beseeching God that grace might be granted to him and his friends to bear their trials with fortitude , but the prisoners had a royal time . The Governor and the deputy Governor turned out of ...
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... Bishop and a hundred priests , was enormous . people were told that the Government had murdered Ashe , and the ... Bishops had frowned on Sinn Fein , but from that time he thinks it received its full quota of the grace of Ecclesiastical ...
... Bishop and a hundred priests , was enormous . people were told that the Government had murdered Ashe , and the ... Bishops had frowned on Sinn Fein , but from that time he thinks it received its full quota of the grace of Ecclesiastical ...
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Page 146 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
Page 19 - ... sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, quid valeant umeri.
Page 369 - ... able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening now and then. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could be extinguished...
Page 75 - His appearance was striking. He was above the middle height, slight and spare. His head was large, his face remarkably like that of Julius Caesar. The forehead, the shape of the ears and nose, were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed that it extended to the temperament. In both there was an original force of character which refused to be moulded by circumstances, which was to make its...
Page 370 - ... up and down the car, and in and out of it, as his fancy dictates ; leans against the door with his hands in his pockets and stares at you, if you chance to be a stranger ; or enters into conversation with the passengers about him. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy. If you are an Englishman, he expects that that railroad is pretty much like an English railroad. If you say " No," he says " Yes ? " (interrogatively),...
Page 333 - In painting Cimabue thought that he Should hold the field, now Giotto has the cry, So that the other's fame is growing dim. So has one Guido from the other taken The glory of our tongue, and he perchance Is born, who from the nest shall chase them both...
Page 346 - ... reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not of every man's natural reason ; for, Nemo nascitur artifex.
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Page 214 - Bright shines the sun ; play, beggars play, Here's scraps enough to serve to-day. The world is ours, and ours alone, For we alone have world at will : We purchase not, all is our own, Both fields and streets we beggars fill ; Nor care to get, nor fear to keep, Did ever break a beggar's sleep. Bright shines the sun ; play, beggars play, Here's scraps enough to serve to-day.
Page 331 - l poema sacro, Al quale ha posto mano e Cielo e Terra, Sì che m' ha fatto per più anni macro, Vinca la crudeltà, che fuor mi serra Del bello ovile, ov...