The Quarterly review, Volumen51Murray, 1834 |
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... sense enough to do properly what he undertakes to do . " - vol . i . p . 166 . ' Pas si bête , ' as honest Figaro says - Monsieur at least was no fool . Indeed , M. Arnault admits that he was a ' garçon d'esprit ; ' and though he ...
... sense enough to do properly what he undertakes to do . " - vol . i . p . 166 . ' Pas si bête , ' as honest Figaro says - Monsieur at least was no fool . Indeed , M. Arnault admits that he was a ' garçon d'esprit ; ' and though he ...
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... sense , as Napoleon the Great . That's what you call sublime ; ' added he- but how different is Ossian from your Homer ! ' and taking up a volume of Ossian which lay on his table , says Arnault like Homer , by the bedside of Alexander ...
... sense , as Napoleon the Great . That's what you call sublime ; ' added he- but how different is Ossian from your Homer ! ' and taking up a volume of Ossian which lay on his table , says Arnault like Homer , by the bedside of Alexander ...
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... sense of his unapproachable majesty . Cowley , who was much nearer akin to the Latin than the Greek poet , expresses his own and Horace's feelings upon this point with great prettiness , after his peculiar manner : - ' Lo ! how the ...
... sense of his unapproachable majesty . Cowley , who was much nearer akin to the Latin than the Greek poet , expresses his own and Horace's feelings upon this point with great prettiness , after his peculiar manner : - ' Lo ! how the ...
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... sense , were to write like Pindar , we think it would be much better to leave the old bard alone with his glory , ' such as it still is , than , by venturing a word in his favour , run the hazard of quickening into increased activity ...
... sense , were to write like Pindar , we think it would be much better to leave the old bard alone with his glory , ' such as it still is , than , by venturing a word in his favour , run the hazard of quickening into increased activity ...
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... sense of the word , the two most picturesque of the great poets of the world - that they display this power in so re- markably high a degree , that , in spite of all minor discrepancies , both of them must be ranked by the philosophic ...
... sense of the word , the two most picturesque of the great poets of the world - that they display this power in so re- markably high a degree , that , in spite of all minor discrepancies , both of them must be ranked by the philosophic ...
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Página 37 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 24 - Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Página 38 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 462 - There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Página 128 - Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way.
Página 39 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness till it smiled...
Página 303 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Página 76 - And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him...
Página 513 - ... the worst that can be said of it is, that it is supererogation — common sense may, according to their ideas, be pleaded against the practice, but surely not conscience.
Página 24 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger...