Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... readers . There is little of fire , vigour and enthusiasm in his style ; but whilst he never rises into the higher regions of poetry , he seldom falls into grave errors of composition , or below medio- crity . He is never sublime and ...
... readers . There is little of fire , vigour and enthusiasm in his style ; but whilst he never rises into the higher regions of poetry , he seldom falls into grave errors of composition , or below medio- crity . He is never sublime and ...
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... reader is not borne onward to some clear and deep conclusion . At its close he is conscious of having had inter- course with some very agreeable and accomplished persons - who by the way are too much alike — with having read some fine ...
... reader is not borne onward to some clear and deep conclusion . At its close he is conscious of having had inter- course with some very agreeable and accomplished persons - who by the way are too much alike — with having read some fine ...
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... readers of " Ina ” would expect . The descriptiveness of several passages in " the Death of Moses , " the pathos of " Died at Sea , " " Tintoretto and his Daughter " -which we think one of the best of Miss Leslie's productions ; -the ...
... readers of " Ina ” would expect . The descriptiveness of several passages in " the Death of Moses , " the pathos of " Died at Sea , " " Tintoretto and his Daughter " -which we think one of the best of Miss Leslie's productions ; -the ...
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... readers : - “ O rich , rich gift of life , white marble block ! Why hast thou been entrusted to my hand ? I am too weak to hew grand statuary For earth's bright golden halls , wherewith the souls Of gazers - on may throb with spirit ...
... readers : - “ O rich , rich gift of life , white marble block ! Why hast thou been entrusted to my hand ? I am too weak to hew grand statuary For earth's bright golden halls , wherewith the souls Of gazers - on may throb with spirit ...
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... readers to it , but have been unable till now . The work is one which de- serves a kindly reception from English residents in India , and which will afford many an hour of pleasant and instructive reading . It is written in a very ...
... readers to it , but have been unable till now . The work is one which de- serves a kindly reception from English residents in India , and which will afford many an hour of pleasant and instructive reading . It is written in a very ...
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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...