Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... matter , as a saying of Johnson's , in reply to the question of Boswell , " Sir , what is poetry ? " " Why , sir , it is much easier to say what it is not . We all know what light is , but it is not easy to tell what it is . " And ...
... matter , as a saying of Johnson's , in reply to the question of Boswell , " Sir , what is poetry ? " " Why , sir , it is much easier to say what it is not . We all know what light is , but it is not easy to tell what it is . " And ...
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... matter for regret . Our best recent poets have been the deepest students of the old masters of song , not of their co- temporaries . They have discovered where the gold mines are . Any one conversant with Wordsworth , Coleridge , and ...
... matter for regret . Our best recent poets have been the deepest students of the old masters of song , not of their co- temporaries . They have discovered where the gold mines are . Any one conversant with Wordsworth , Coleridge , and ...
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... matter as a separate question , having a care to consider in what manner such a public collection of Prison Industry may be susceptible of improvement , and how most likely to conduce to the end in view . Previous to the date of the ...
... matter as a separate question , having a care to consider in what manner such a public collection of Prison Industry may be susceptible of improvement , and how most likely to conduce to the end in view . Previous to the date of the ...
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... matter of expenditure , arises , beyond a doubt , from the dearness of the particular district , and not from the defective management of the establishment . The first result of the working of the year under review , is that the average ...
... matter of expenditure , arises , beyond a doubt , from the dearness of the particular district , and not from the defective management of the establishment . The first result of the working of the year under review , is that the average ...
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... matters of science or religion , himself occupying the capital of the central pillar , while his chief men were seated in the four corners . CC The In this same court is a pavilion , consisting of a pyramidal canopy of elaborately ...
... matters of science or religion , himself occupying the capital of the central pillar , while his chief men were seated in the four corners . CC The In this same court is a pavilion , consisting of a pyramidal canopy of elaborately ...
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Page 94 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 93 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm.
Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page 228 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 1 - Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Page 77 - Ceremonies;' together with plates of the system of torture and burnings at the Auto da Fe. I added that it was now generally believed in Europe, that these enormities no longer existed, and that the Inquisition itself had been totally suppressed; but that I was concerned to find that this was not the case. He now began a grave narration to...
Page 267 - Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
Page 190 - All surgeons at the end of last century and the beginning of the present...
Page 69 - They constitute the surface level, and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible that their character cannot even be hinted. There are some dark shadows in human nature which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no attempt to collect information of this kind ; but there...
Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...