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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... period . Mr Hardy , who embodies it as to the manner born , is of our own generation ; and here the name which at once occurs to us for romance is that of Robert Louis Stevenson , for life that of George Meredith , and for ideas that of ...
... period . Mr Hardy , who embodies it as to the manner born , is of our own generation ; and here the name which at once occurs to us for romance is that of Robert Louis Stevenson , for life that of George Meredith , and for ideas that of ...
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... period behind us , we always find ourselves cheated of the essence of what our fathers set themselves to achieve . That is the thought at the bottom of all Tchekhof's plays . Disillusion is his constant theme , the theme of ' The ...
... period behind us , we always find ourselves cheated of the essence of what our fathers set themselves to achieve . That is the thought at the bottom of all Tchekhof's plays . Disillusion is his constant theme , the theme of ' The ...
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... periods . ' In giving him the golden cup , the King of the Underworld bids him ' seek me without wearying and lock my sadness in your breast . Earthly flowers are only made of taffeta , dia- dems of tinsel . Do not worship the evil ...
... periods . ' In giving him the golden cup , the King of the Underworld bids him ' seek me without wearying and lock my sadness in your breast . Earthly flowers are only made of taffeta , dia- dems of tinsel . Do not worship the evil ...
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... 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 advent of famine or pestilence , have been sufficient to turn the scale ...
... 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 advent of famine or pestilence , have been sufficient to turn the scale ...
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... or otherwise of a nation ; and , in regard to these , the England of to - day probably compares favourably with that of any earlier period . During the quinquennium 1861-65 the average annual death - rate of England 44 EUGENICS.
... or otherwise of a nation ; and , in regard to these , the England of to - day probably compares favourably with that of any earlier period . During the quinquennium 1861-65 the average annual death - rate of England 44 EUGENICS.
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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.