The Quarterly Review, Volume 45William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1831 - English literature |
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... feeling , thinking , and believing are , in many respects , so remote from and repugnant to those of all European nations . Yet to the few who study with intense interest the history of man , how full of wonder and of information is the ...
... feeling , thinking , and believing are , in many respects , so remote from and repugnant to those of all European nations . Yet to the few who study with intense interest the history of man , how full of wonder and of information is the ...
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... feelings it is the living expression , but even to European ears may be found to abound in passages rarely per- haps of striking grandeur or energy , but often of the most exquisite delicacy , of the softest tenderness , of infinite ...
... feelings it is the living expression , but even to European ears may be found to abound in passages rarely per- haps of striking grandeur or energy , but often of the most exquisite delicacy , of the softest tenderness , of infinite ...
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... feeling of sorrow , or fear , or compunction , being permitted to intrude on the divine apathy of his soul . Some of the images with which this passion- less tranquillity of the spirit is illustrated appear to us singularly beautiful ...
... feeling of sorrow , or fear , or compunction , being permitted to intrude on the divine apathy of his soul . Some of the images with which this passion- less tranquillity of the spirit is illustrated appear to us singularly beautiful ...
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... feeling , must content itself with being the treasured delight of the few ; -if it speaks a dialect in the least foreign or learned , or requires a more than ordinarily vivid imagination to transport us into the new world which it opens ...
... feeling , must content itself with being the treasured delight of the few ; -if it speaks a dialect in the least foreign or learned , or requires a more than ordinarily vivid imagination to transport us into the new world which it opens ...
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... feelings , which lie in the very depth of our common nature , -affections and passions , of which the language is as universal as the shape and the lineaments of man ; and when poetry , in however remote a region , speaks this general ...
... feelings , which lie in the very depth of our common nature , -affections and passions , of which the language is as universal as the shape and the lineaments of man ; and when poetry , in however remote a region , speaks this general ...
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Page 164 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Page 222 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 517 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 222 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Page 165 - WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Page 345 - At the third time, when the phantasm of light and colours about it were almost vanished, intending my fancy upon them to see their last appearance, I found, to my amazement, that they began to return, and by little and little to become as lively and vivid as when I had newly looked upon the sun. But when I ceased to intend my fancy upon them, they vanished again. After this...
Page 402 - Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge; wherein many things are reserved, which kings with their treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command; their spials and intelligencers can give no news of them, their seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow: now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity; but if we would be led by her in invention, we should command her in action.
Page 404 - ... nutriment, capable of preservation for years, and ready to yield up their sustenance in the form best adapted to the support of life, on the application of that powerful agent, steam, which enters so largely into all our processes, or of an acid at once cheap and durable...
Page 123 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 405 - Cut bono? — to what practical end and advantage do your researches tend? — is one which the speculative philosopher, who loves knowledge for its own sake, and enjoys, as a rational being should enjoy, the mere contemplation of harmonious and mutually dependent truths, can seldom hear without a sense of humiliation. He feels that there is a lofty and disinterested pleasure in his speculations, which ought to exempt them from such questioning. But...