The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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Page 30
... young girls are incompatible with Western notions of reason , justice , hygiene . ' What could you expect of a nation whose mothers have to live in perpetual infamy , married in their early teens , often to become widows before they are ...
... young girls are incompatible with Western notions of reason , justice , hygiene . ' What could you expect of a nation whose mothers have to live in perpetual infamy , married in their early teens , often to become widows before they are ...
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... young author , evidently fresh from a tour on the Rhine , before the broad and flowing ' river had been defaced by the industrial prosperity which he would despise and detest , had transferred the bright local colouring to his canvas ...
... young author , evidently fresh from a tour on the Rhine , before the broad and flowing ' river had been defaced by the industrial prosperity which he would despise and detest , had transferred the bright local colouring to his canvas ...
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... young Richard any actual injury , he inclines to screen the scrapegrace he encourages . On the other hand , we see Mr. Meredith in a very different aspect when he deals with ingenuous youth and plain - spoken farmers . His boys are ...
... young Richard any actual injury , he inclines to screen the scrapegrace he encourages . On the other hand , we see Mr. Meredith in a very different aspect when he deals with ingenuous youth and plain - spoken farmers . His boys are ...
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... On a closer inspection you might see that her lips were stained . This blooming young person was regaling on dew - berries . . . . The little skylark went up above her , all song , to the 42 Jan. Mr. Meredith's Novels .
... On a closer inspection you might see that her lips were stained . This blooming young person was regaling on dew - berries . . . . The little skylark went up above her , all song , to the 42 Jan. Mr. Meredith's Novels .
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... young lady is struggling to break away , not only because he is fascinated by her beauty , but because his pride is deeply engaged . It is characteristic that he would rather undergo any amount of secret mortification than have his ...
... young lady is struggling to break away , not only because he is fascinated by her beauty , but because his pride is deeply engaged . It is characteristic that he would rather undergo any amount of secret mortification than have his ...
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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.