The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 |
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... Cause of it all , ' produced in April last by the Adelphi Play Society , it is hard to believe that he really wrote them as they stand . Among the younger generation , Osip Dymof has " succeeded in bringing this peculiarly Russian ...
... Cause of it all , ' produced in April last by the Adelphi Play Society , it is hard to believe that he really wrote them as they stand . Among the younger generation , Osip Dymof has " succeeded in bringing this peculiarly Russian ...
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... causes of the growth and decay of nations have been many and varied . At a period when competition has been keen and when several nations have been strenuously contending for supremacy , the fortune of war , the chance of the day , the ...
... causes of the growth and decay of nations have been many and varied . At a period when competition has been keen and when several nations have been strenuously contending for supremacy , the fortune of war , the chance of the day , the ...
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... cause of national decay . The history of the human race points to the origin of progress and decline as being much more deeply seated . Advance is dependent upon the gradual evolution of new functions whereby adaptation is secured to an ...
... cause of national decay . The history of the human race points to the origin of progress and decline as being much more deeply seated . Advance is dependent upon the gradual evolution of new functions whereby adaptation is secured to an ...
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... causes , rather than to any heightened vitality of the people themselves , that this decline is due . For instance , between 1850 and 1908 the mortality rate from consumption declined to the extent of 65 per cent . From 1871 to 1908 the ...
... causes , rather than to any heightened vitality of the people themselves , that this decline is due . For instance , between 1850 and 1908 the mortality rate from consumption declined to the extent of 65 per cent . From 1871 to 1908 the ...
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... cause as there were in 1873. And the proportion is by no means insignificant ; it is now nearly two - fifths of the total number of deaths . But it is certain that many delicate children are reared to - day who would formerly have ...
... cause as there were in 1873. And the proportion is by no means insignificant ; it is now nearly two - fifths of the total number of deaths . But it is certain that many delicate children are reared to - day who would formerly have ...
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Page 528 - Hence it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman, to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined, and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him ; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His...
Page 395 - O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air— That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars!— The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.
Page 457 - That a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair Waits me there In the turret whence the charioteers caught soul For the goal, When the king looked, where she looks now, breathless, dumb Till I come. But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts, — and then, All the men!
Page 534 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 165 - Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship— a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night; gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.
Page 191 - ... advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented...
Page 170 - But we can see him, an obscure conqueror of fame, tearing himself out of the arms of a jealous love at the sign, at the call of his exalted egoism. He goes away from a living woman to celebrate his pitiless wedding with a shadowy ideal of conduct.
Page 399 - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth. And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing, never vanishes. To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro' heaven, Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, Thou...
Page 167 - Siamese navy; and in all they said - in their actions, in their looks, in their persons - could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence.
Page 457 - Never any more, While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, Mine may strive : Bitterly we re-embrace, Single still. n. Was it something said, Something done, Vexed him ? was it touch of hand, Turn of head ? Strange ! that very way Love begun : I as little understand Love's decay.