The North British Review, Volume 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 - English literature |
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... NOVELS , 1. The Warden . By Anthony Trollope . New Edition . London , 1861 . 2. Barchester Towers . By Anthony Trollope . New Edi- tion . London , 1861 . 3. Dr. Thorne . By Anthony Trollope . New Edition . London , 1861 . 4. The Three ...
... NOVELS , 1. The Warden . By Anthony Trollope . New Edition . London , 1861 . 2. Barchester Towers . By Anthony Trollope . New Edi- tion . London , 1861 . 3. Dr. Thorne . By Anthony Trollope . New Edition . London , 1861 . 4. The Three ...
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... novel , when so rare a thing is to be had . " We discovered later that his reading is more extensive . He is Eton bred , and didn't he surprise us once with a pretty jeu d'esprit in Latin , in good set longs and shorts , right in quan ...
... novel , when so rare a thing is to be had . " We discovered later that his reading is more extensive . He is Eton bred , and didn't he surprise us once with a pretty jeu d'esprit in Latin , in good set longs and shorts , right in quan ...
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... novel processes of the highest originality as well as practical utility . It is devoted solely ( so far as its physical applications are concerned ) to the problems of the Conduction and Radiation of heat . Whatever may eventually be ...
... novel processes of the highest originality as well as practical utility . It is devoted solely ( so far as its physical applications are concerned ) to the problems of the Conduction and Radiation of heat . Whatever may eventually be ...
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... novel- ties , well suited to the lecture - room , are carefully described ; and , on the whole , the work is calculated to prove exceedingly interesting even to the scientific reader . But we look in vain through its pages for so much ...
... novel- ties , well suited to the lecture - room , are carefully described ; and , on the whole , the work is calculated to prove exceedingly interesting even to the scientific reader . But we look in vain through its pages for so much ...
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... novel - palming proselyte of the Age of Reason . " Here , we suppose , Coleridge got weary of his work of annota- tion . Enough , however , has been done by him to show the remarkable soundness of his critical judgment , and his ...
... novel - palming proselyte of the Age of Reason . " Here , we suppose , Coleridge got weary of his work of annota- tion . Enough , however , has been done by him to show the remarkable soundness of his critical judgment , and his ...
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Page 89 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful : for he had great possessions.
Page 294 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Page 91 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Page 268 - Ah me ! how quick the days are flitting ! I mind me of a time that's gone, When here I'd sit, as now I'm sitting, In this same place — but not alone. A fair young form was nestled near me, A dear, dear face looked fondly up, And sweetly spoke and smiled to cheer me — There's no one now to share my cup.
Page 271 - The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down.
Page 250 - I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again.
Page 249 - ... than the fancy. This seems, however, to have been the case with Bacon. His boyhood and youth appear to have been singularly sedate. His gigantic scheme of philosophical reform is said by some writers to have been planned before he was fifteen; and was undoubtedly planned while he was still young. He observed as vigilantly, meditated as deeply, and judged as temperately, when he gave his first work to the world as at the close of his long career. But in eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...
Page 270 - Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun.
Page 60 - It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Page 271 - This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...