Calcutta Review, Volume 65University of Calcutta, 1877 |
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Page 236 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound: Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 286 - If Homer was not the first who introduced the deities (as Herodotus imagines) into the religion of Greece, he seems the first who brought them into a system of machinery for poetry...
Page 27 - I established a mint, and coined my own rupees, which I made current in my army and country...
Page 233 - Gomorrah, with the rising of the prentices, and pulling down the bawdy-houses there upon Shrove Tuesday ; but the Gunpowder Plot, there was a getpenny ? I have presented that to an eighteen or twentypence audience, nine times in an afternoon. Your home-born projects prove ever the best, they are so easy and familiar ; they put too much learning in their things now o' days : and that I fear will be the > spoil of this.
Page 301 - Christians: they are Christians, if LOCKE reasons justly, because they firmly believe the immaculate conception, divine character, and miracles of the MESSIAH; but they are heterodox, in denying vehemently his character of Son, and his equality, as God, with the Father, of whose unity and attributes they entertain and express the most awful ideas...
Page 309 - Restoration we find ourselves all at once among the great currents of thought and activity which have gone on widening and deepening from that time to this. The England around us becomes our own England, an England whose chief forces are industry and science, the love of popular freedom and of law, an England which presses steadily forward to a larger social justice and equality, and which tends more and more to bring every custom and tradition, religious, intellectual, and political, to the test...
Page 11 - but,' says Colonel Malleson, ' he still looked for more at their hands. It must never be lost sight of that the great dream of Madhaji (sic) Sindhia's life was to unite all the native powers of India in one great confederacy against the English. In this respect he was the most far-sighted statesman that India has ever produced. ... It was a grand idea, capable of realisation by Madhaji, but by him alone, and which, but for his death, would have been realised...
Page 230 - Mirth. That was the old way, gossip, when Iniquity came in like Hokos Pokos, in a juggler's jerkin, with false skirts, like the knave of clubs; but now they are attired like men and women of the time, the vices male and female.
Page 233 - O, the motions that I, Lanthorn Leatherhead, have given light to, in my time, since my Master Pod died ! Jerusalem was a stately thing, and so was Nineveh, and the City of Norwich, and Sodom and Gomorrah...
Page 243 - In my memory these shows consisted of a wretched display of wooden figures, barbarously formed and decorated, without the least degree of taste or propriety : the wires that communicated the motion to them appeared at the top of their heads, and the manner in which they were made to move evinced the ignorance and inattention of the managers.