The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen169A. Constable, 1889 |
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... letters , has well employed his leisure in compiling an authentic and interesting memoir of his house ; an addition to a class of works which possesses a special attraction to many persons ; the histories of counties and county families ...
... letters , has well employed his leisure in compiling an authentic and interesting memoir of his house ; an addition to a class of works which possesses a special attraction to many persons ; the histories of counties and county families ...
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... letter to Sir Horace Mann , is the most ' heavenly chapel in the world : it only wants a few pictures to ' give it a ... letters , is rich in historic memories . The house built by Lord Sandys is of red brick with the well - known Tudor ...
... letter to Sir Horace Mann , is the most ' heavenly chapel in the world : it only wants a few pictures to ' give it a ... letters , is rich in historic memories . The house built by Lord Sandys is of red brick with the well - known Tudor ...
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... letter written in answer to the demands of the rebels , mentions the Lord Sandys , my Chamberlain , ' as one of the trusty advisers in whom they might well place confidence . The Chamberlain's last official service was at a Privy ...
... letter written in answer to the demands of the rebels , mentions the Lord Sandys , my Chamberlain , ' as one of the trusty advisers in whom they might well place confidence . The Chamberlain's last official service was at a Privy ...
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... letters from the author of the Elegy ' to Chute , whom he addresses playfully in one of them as suavissime Chuti , ' appear for the first time in this volume . These are not to our minds particularly interesting ; they are written in a ...
... letters from the author of the Elegy ' to Chute , whom he addresses playfully in one of them as suavissime Chuti , ' appear for the first time in this volume . These are not to our minds particularly interesting ; they are written in a ...
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... letters to Chute from Horace Walpole , here published for the first time , if somewhat affected and artificial , as was the nature of the man , evince at the same time a genuine regard and sympathy for his friend , which the similarity ...
... letters to Chute from Horace Walpole , here published for the first time , if somewhat affected and artificial , as was the nature of the man , evince at the same time a genuine regard and sympathy for his friend , which the similarity ...
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Página 430 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main, why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Página 441 - Prophets of Nature, we to them will speak A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells...
Página 447 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith ; Of blessed consolations in distress ; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power ; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Página 417 - I trust is their destiny, to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Página 417 - It is an awful truth, that there neither is, nor can be, any genuine enjoyment of Poetry among nineteen out of twenty of those persons who live, or wish to live, in the broad light of the world — among those who either are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society.
Página 385 - We are told that there was no malice, and that the prisoner must have been in liquor. In liquor ! Why, he was drunk ! And yet he murdered the very man who had been drinking with him ! They had been carousing the whole night ; and yet he stabbed him ; after drinking a whole bottle of rum with him ; Good God, my Laards, if he will do this when he's drunk, what will he not do when he's sober ? " His love of children was warm-hearted and unaffected.
Página 396 - State by law established, or to point out, in order to their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of Her Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention.
Página 446 - His desperate course of tumult and of glee. That which in stealth by Nature was performed Hath Reason sanctioned ; her deliberate Voice Hath said ; be mild, and cleave to gentle things, Thy glory and thy happiness be there.
Página 382 - Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended to us as that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages.
Página 440 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die ; But in the mountains did he feel his faith.