The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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Page 12
... probably reached at this moment its climax in Europe . With these contingencies in view , and remembering the great importance to our Indian empire of maintaining , so long as it may be possible , the status quo in China , we can ...
... probably reached at this moment its climax in Europe . With these contingencies in view , and remembering the great importance to our Indian empire of maintaining , so long as it may be possible , the status quo in China , we can ...
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... probably rich enough to distribute them in large quantities , and the balance was passed on from village to village till the origin of the chupáti became lost , and they went on their way rejoicing as sacred prasád — that is , food sent ...
... probably rich enough to distribute them in large quantities , and the balance was passed on from village to village till the origin of the chupáti became lost , and they went on their way rejoicing as sacred prasád — that is , food sent ...
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... probably imagined that at least this side of their position would be sheltered from attack . On the contrary , it has been repeatedly assaulted by those who accept the principle but differ widely as to the application - by Christian ...
... probably imagined that at least this side of their position would be sheltered from attack . On the contrary , it has been repeatedly assaulted by those who accept the principle but differ widely as to the application - by Christian ...
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... probably now - a - days it is ble- mished to him by the sweet simplicity which commends it to our memory and fancy : - ' The thrush and the lark and the blackbird , They taught me how to sing : And O that the hawk would lend his eye ...
... probably now - a - days it is ble- mished to him by the sweet simplicity which commends it to our memory and fancy : - ' The thrush and the lark and the blackbird , They taught me how to sing : And O that the hawk would lend his eye ...
Page 41
... probably intriguing to supplant the heir . Yet Adrian's inveterate spirit of mischief seems rather amiable than malignant ; his conceptions of morality are elastic in the extreme , and he looks on with the interest of a dispassionate ...
... probably intriguing to supplant the heir . Yet Adrian's inveterate spirit of mischief seems rather amiable than malignant ; his conceptions of morality are elastic in the extreme , and he looks on with the interest of a dispassionate ...
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Page 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Page 491 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
Page 527 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
Page 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Page 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.