The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 241852 |
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... thought of the value of the theories propounded in those works , there can be little question of their being the production of an able and capacious mind animated with all the ardour necessary for the deepest research . So far our ...
... thought of the value of the theories propounded in those works , there can be little question of their being the production of an able and capacious mind animated with all the ardour necessary for the deepest research . So far our ...
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... thought an Abury or a Stonehenge unworthy of notice in their pages , whether their object was merely to gratify a taste for eloquent description , or a love of the marvellous , or to answer the more solid purpose of theorising upon the ...
... thought an Abury or a Stonehenge unworthy of notice in their pages , whether their object was merely to gratify a taste for eloquent description , or a love of the marvellous , or to answer the more solid purpose of theorising upon the ...
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... thought of giving any weight to the narrative of Geoffrey of Monmouth , the Latin translator of Tysilio's Chronicle of Kings . ' In their contempt for monkish tradition , historians have no doubt neglected many sources of valuable ...
... thought of giving any weight to the narrative of Geoffrey of Monmouth , the Latin translator of Tysilio's Chronicle of Kings . ' In their contempt for monkish tradition , historians have no doubt neglected many sources of valuable ...
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... thought , the one represented by the unruffled viso sciolto , the other far down in the depths , away from sight and thought , and only stirred when the moment of action arrives . It only shows she was the more accomplished dissembler ...
... thought , the one represented by the unruffled viso sciolto , the other far down in the depths , away from sight and thought , and only stirred when the moment of action arrives . It only shows she was the more accomplished dissembler ...
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... thought themselves divinely commissioned to sanction his destruction . Rizzio's murder , with all its savage details , strangely illustrates the times . The public motives for which it was undertaken , and the sort of judicial character ...
... thought themselves divinely commissioned to sanction his destruction . Rizzio's murder , with all its savage details , strangely illustrates the times . The public motives for which it was undertaken , and the sort of judicial character ...
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Page 321 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 22 - It is no wonder,' said the lords, ' She is more beautiful than day.' As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen : One praised her ankles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien.
Page 309 - Poet, and, perhaps, in a much greater degree : for there can be no presumption in saying of most readers, that it is not probable they will be so well acquainted with the various stages of meaning through which words have passed...
Page 255 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 321 - He heard it, but he heeded not ; his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away: He reck'd not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.
Page 49 - ... it is a heartbreak for her to think that he should be her husband, and how to be free of him, she sees no outgate .... I see between them no agreement, nor no appearance that they shall agree well thereafter".
Page 310 - Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless therefore we are advocates for that admiration which subsists upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the Poet must descend from this supposed height ; and, in order to excite rational sympathy, he must express himself as other men express themselves.
Page 138 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye...
Page 310 - He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 412 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.