The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... less obtrusive than usual ; but we are also aware of touches of subtle appeal to our emotions , and thrilling , if vague , suggestions of pathos and romance . And in these , or at least a portion of them , it seems natural to see the ...
... less obtrusive than usual ; but we are also aware of touches of subtle appeal to our emotions , and thrilling , if vague , suggestions of pathos and romance . And in these , or at least a portion of them , it seems natural to see the ...
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manner in which the picture was drawn , he was not less exacting in his choice of the matter to be represented ; and this because neither matter nor manner , except at their most perfect , could fitly cooperate with the other . As fine ...
manner in which the picture was drawn , he was not less exacting in his choice of the matter to be represented ; and this because neither matter nor manner , except at their most perfect , could fitly cooperate with the other . As fine ...
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... An American of his quality and opportunities was certain to be cosmopolitan . Europe drew him and kept him fast , but a man of less insatiable imagination might have found that he had lost his own country without 64 HENRY JAMES.
... An American of his quality and opportunities was certain to be cosmopolitan . Europe drew him and kept him fast , but a man of less insatiable imagination might have found that he had lost his own country without 64 HENRY JAMES.
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... less ingenuous delight in Europe , a charming fancy properly indulged until it had yielded its full measure of happy effects . His strong and restless mind could not be satisfied with it for long . Embedded in the mellow picturesqueness ...
... less ingenuous delight in Europe , a charming fancy properly indulged until it had yielded its full measure of happy effects . His strong and restless mind could not be satisfied with it for long . Embedded in the mellow picturesqueness ...
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... less free , less supple , or less perfectly timed , she and her furniture and her fixed idea would all have been uninteresting together . As it is , by the clean finish of everything she does and says and thinks , her whole wrong ...
... less free , less supple , or less perfectly timed , she and her furniture and her fixed idea would all have been uninteresting together . As it is , by the clean finish of everything she does and says and thinks , her whole wrong ...
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Page 130 - eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawn.
Page 124 - fiery heart' and 'tumultuous harmony' to prefer the stockdove's song, ' Slow to begin and never ending ; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the song—the song for me !' yet the ' glee' remained, if now more inward than outward ; and so did the poet's faith in the heart of man
Page 128 - There ! that dusky spot Beneath thee, that is England; there she lies. Blessings be on you both! One hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Page 131 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 131 - the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child 1
Page 402 - 1 grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a
Page 131 - art Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 402 - I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that
Page 392 - you as she sent you, long ago, South to desert, east to ocean, west to snow, West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 1 must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young Star-captains glow.' Such melody and such imagery as this are in the true
Page 476 - digestive medicament had but little pain, and their wounds without inflammation or swelling, having rested fairly well that night; the others, to whom the boiling oil was used, I found feverish, with great pain and swelling about the edges of their wounds. Then I resolved never more to burn thus cruelly poor men with gunshot wounds.