The National Review, Volume 15Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1862 |
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... appears here in his most agree- able aspect . The letters recording the particulars of this visit are especially interesting , and the variety of moods and subjects over which the poet's conversation ranged is well indicated by ...
... appears here in his most agree- able aspect . The letters recording the particulars of this visit are especially interesting , and the variety of moods and subjects over which the poet's conversation ranged is well indicated by ...
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... appear , with their trombones in C major , when the watchmen come in again in alarm , and here I mean to introduce a light , mysterious , tripping chorus ; and lastly , to conclude with a grand sacrificial hymn . Do you not think that ...
... appear , with their trombones in C major , when the watchmen come in again in alarm , and here I mean to introduce a light , mysterious , tripping chorus ; and lastly , to conclude with a grand sacrificial hymn . Do you not think that ...
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... appear as the Avenger , whose " wrath will pursue us till He destroy us " ( an impres- sion which Elijah fully shares with his audience ) . The painful- ness of this theme would be too great , were it not relieved by the divine visions ...
... appear as the Avenger , whose " wrath will pursue us till He destroy us " ( an impres- sion which Elijah fully shares with his audience ) . The painful- ness of this theme would be too great , were it not relieved by the divine visions ...
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... appear in them to be no longer with the Beni Kedem and the Themanites , but with Persia , and afterwards with Greece . The contempo- raries of Ezra and Nehemiah , M. Rénan thinks , would have counted Job's vehement protests blasphemous ...
... appear in them to be no longer with the Beni Kedem and the Themanites , but with Persia , and afterwards with Greece . The contempo- raries of Ezra and Nehemiah , M. Rénan thinks , would have counted Job's vehement protests blasphemous ...
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... appear in this character about the time of Uzziah king of Judah , and of Menahen king of Israel , the time of Amos , Hosea , and Isaiah , about 770 B.C. It is to this middle period of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel , when the old ...
... appear in this character about the time of Uzziah king of Judah , and of Menahen king of Israel , the time of Amos , Hosea , and Isaiah , about 770 B.C. It is to this middle period of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel , when the old ...
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Page 36 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Page 95 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Page 35 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
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Page 35 - Cursed be the day wherein I was born: Let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; Making him very glad.
Page 36 - The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Page 44 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
Page 93 - Then saw I many broken hinted sights In the uncertain state I stepp'd into. Meseem'd to be I know not in what place, Where ladies through the street, like mournful lights, Ran with loose hair, and eyes that frighten'd you By their own terror, and a pale amaze: The while, little by little, as I thought, The sun ceased, and the stars began to gather, And each wept at the other; And birds...
Page 59 - Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 132 - Thea, I feel thee ere I see thy face; Look up, and let me see our doom in it; Look up, and tell me if this feeble shape Is Saturn's; tell me, if thou hear'st the voice Of Saturn; tell me, if this wrinkling brow, 100 Naked and bare of its great diadem, Peers like the front of Saturn.