The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 27Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1841 - English literature |
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... human soul by a dramatic performance must be the result of close attention , of absolute long - continued abstrac- tion . The drama is a tyrant that must absorb all our faculties , and whose chance of success depends on a thorough ...
... human soul by a dramatic performance must be the result of close attention , of absolute long - continued abstrac- tion . The drama is a tyrant that must absorb all our faculties , and whose chance of success depends on a thorough ...
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... human mind there is nothing like his Philip of Spain . We remember to have risen from our seat after its per- formance , oppressed and exhausted , our eyes dizzy , our temples throbbing and aching . But it is not true that Alfieri could ...
... human mind there is nothing like his Philip of Spain . We remember to have risen from our seat after its per- formance , oppressed and exhausted , our eyes dizzy , our temples throbbing and aching . But it is not true that Alfieri could ...
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... human heart . But let it not be forgotten that Manzoni is above all things a lyric poet . The chorus in the third act of " Carmagnola " and those at the end of the second and fourth acts of " Adelchi " are written in a prophetic rather ...
... human heart . But let it not be forgotten that Manzoni is above all things a lyric poet . The chorus in the third act of " Carmagnola " and those at the end of the second and fourth acts of " Adelchi " are written in a prophetic rather ...
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... human heart untouched . The guilty and yet undefinable connection between Don Carlos and his step - mother , the virtu- ous but more than human devotion of Hæmon for Antigone , and what has been justly called the " hysterics " of Myrrha ...
... human heart untouched . The guilty and yet undefinable connection between Don Carlos and his step - mother , the virtu- ous but more than human devotion of Hæmon for Antigone , and what has been justly called the " hysterics " of Myrrha ...
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... human style . But it is precisely this constant aiming at an artificial sublimity , this fondness for lofty , pithy laconisms , this pompous rhetorical display , which gives the Italian classical style a stiffness , a turgidness , a ...
... human style . But it is precisely this constant aiming at an artificial sublimity , this fondness for lofty , pithy laconisms , this pompous rhetorical display , which gives the Italian classical style a stiffness , a turgidness , a ...
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Page 342 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 342 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due...
Page 401 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes...
Page 242 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 195 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 262 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 341 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 341 - ... I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 411 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 341 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.