The National Review, Volume 17Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1863 - Periodicals |
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Page 45
... evidence of that " âpreté dévorante , " that dreary view of life , and that cynical dislike of society , which pointed all his later witticisms . What , he asked , would be the task of the Molière of that day ? " Verrait - il , sans ...
... evidence of that " âpreté dévorante , " that dreary view of life , and that cynical dislike of society , which pointed all his later witticisms . What , he asked , would be the task of the Molière of that day ? " Verrait - il , sans ...
Page 53
... evidence of his real thoughtfulness and political insight . For one thing , he thoroughly appreciated the gravity of the statesman's task : " La politique , " he said , " est comme le sphinx de la fable- elle dévore tous ceux qui n ...
... evidence of his real thoughtfulness and political insight . For one thing , he thoroughly appreciated the gravity of the statesman's task : " La politique , " he said , " est comme le sphinx de la fable- elle dévore tous ceux qui n ...
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... evidence his writings themselves afford of the compass and depth of his acquaintance with books . However great Warburton's receptive capacity , his instinct to communicate thought was quite as vigorous . All this read- ing could not go ...
... evidence his writings themselves afford of the compass and depth of his acquaintance with books . However great Warburton's receptive capacity , his instinct to communicate thought was quite as vigorous . All this read- ing could not go ...
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... evidence arising from miracles . " The letter , signed a " Country Clergyman , " winds up with a naïve disclosure of the writer's purpose in a hint that Mr. Warburton " should be hindered from any further advancement in the church ...
... evidence arising from miracles . " The letter , signed a " Country Clergyman , " winds up with a naïve disclosure of the writer's purpose in a hint that Mr. Warburton " should be hindered from any further advancement in the church ...
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... evidences we can cite of the goodness of heart and placa- bility of temper which lurked beneath Warburton's coarse and rude exterior . Lowth's victory had been won by the weapon of refined irony and scarcasm , against which the ...
... evidences we can cite of the goodness of heart and placa- bility of temper which lurked beneath Warburton's coarse and rude exterior . Lowth's victory had been won by the weapon of refined irony and scarcasm , against which the ...
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Page 307 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 293 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 312 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 531 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 311 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 190 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 318 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 307 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 318 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 305 - I go, and it is done : the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.