The National Review, Volume 19Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1864 |
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... thought good is perfectly consistent with presidential government . * One can conceive the acts of an hereditary king needing the confirmation of one branch of his legislature , just like the acts of the president . Such an arrange ...
... thought good is perfectly consistent with presidential government . * One can conceive the acts of an hereditary king needing the confirmation of one branch of his legislature , just like the acts of the president . Such an arrange ...
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... thought , no sublime feeling , no consummate description of true character . Almost the sole result of the poetry of that time is the harm which it has done . It degraded for a time the whole character of the art . It said by practice ...
... thought , no sublime feeling , no consummate description of true character . Almost the sole result of the poetry of that time is the harm which it has done . It degraded for a time the whole character of the art . It said by practice ...
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... thought , are signs in the artistic mind of secondary excellence . A Schiller , an Euripides , a Ben Jonson , cares ... thoughts , in the real world— “ which is the world of all of us ” —where the face of nature , the moving masses of ...
... thought , are signs in the artistic mind of secondary excellence . A Schiller , an Euripides , a Ben Jonson , cares ... thoughts , in the real world— “ which is the world of all of us ” —where the face of nature , the moving masses of ...
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... thought , be some community between us some ground whereon both of us might meet ! " With Goethe's natural history , or with Kant's philosophy , we have here no concern , but we can combine the expressions of the two great poets into a ...
... thought , be some community between us some ground whereon both of us might meet ! " With Goethe's natural history , or with Kant's philosophy , we have here no concern , but we can combine the expressions of the two great poets into a ...
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... thought Nor outward things were clos'd and dead to us , But we receiv'd the shock of mighty thoughts On simple minds with a pure natural joy ; And if the sacred load oppress'd our brain , We had the power to feel the pressure eas'd ...
... thought Nor outward things were clos'd and dead to us , But we receiv'd the shock of mighty thoughts On simple minds with a pure natural joy ; And if the sacred load oppress'd our brain , We had the power to feel the pressure eas'd ...
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Page 63 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 62 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Page 64 - Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a...
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Page 43 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity...
Page 66 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 42 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
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Page 64 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper...
Page 241 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not property safe ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.