The Quarterly Review, Volume 179William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1894 |
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... poems in which Ovid was more sincere , as in the Art of Love , ' which was justly regarded by Macaulay as the greatest of Ovid's works , and which reminds Sellar of Byron's ' Don Juan , ' as a poem in which a true vein of real poetry ...
... poems in which Ovid was more sincere , as in the Art of Love , ' which was justly regarded by Macaulay as the greatest of Ovid's works , and which reminds Sellar of Byron's ' Don Juan , ' as a poem in which a true vein of real poetry ...
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... poems have come down to us . It seems as if a great reputation , either for good or for evil , in the sphere of ... poem , † we may say that few have sold their country more advantageously than Lucan . He was a political economist , too ...
... poems have come down to us . It seems as if a great reputation , either for good or for evil , in the sphere of ... poem , † we may say that few have sold their country more advantageously than Lucan . He was a political economist , too ...
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... poem without a hero is in the rhetorical skill displayed in those parts of it where rhetoric is appropriate , as for instance in the magnificent reflections on the death of Pompey . It is his matchless powers as a rhetorician and a ...
... poem without a hero is in the rhetorical skill displayed in those parts of it where rhetoric is appropriate , as for instance in the magnificent reflections on the death of Pompey . It is his matchless powers as a rhetorician and a ...
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... poem on the Civil War in three hundred verses , which good authorities have pronounced to outweigh in the critical balance the ... poems or of the other metrical jeux d'esprit scattered through the Satyricon , ' but we gladly embrace the ...
... poem on the Civil War in three hundred verses , which good authorities have pronounced to outweigh in the critical balance the ... poems or of the other metrical jeux d'esprit scattered through the Satyricon , ' but we gladly embrace the ...
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... poem of the Silver Age , and it stands alone in Latin literature for the dramatic skill with which the characters are made to speak each in the tone and style which befits his position and educa- tion . This is a completely modern note ...
... poem of the Silver Age , and it stands alone in Latin literature for the dramatic skill with which the characters are made to speak each in the tone and style which befits his position and educa- tion . This is a completely modern note ...
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Página 116 - Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
Página 100 - Mr. Keble preached the Assize Sermon in the University Pulpit. It was published under the title of "National Apostasy." I have ever considered and kept the day, as the start of the religious movement of 1833.
Página 244 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 454 - Since men are seldom suspected of sincerity, when they act contrary to their interests; and though my dutiful behaviour to your majesty in the worst of times (for which I acknowledge my poor services much overpaid) may not be sufficient to incline you to a charitable interpretation of my actions ; yet I hope the great advantage I enjoy under your majesty, which I can never expect in any other change of government, may reasonably convince your majesty and the world that I am actuated by a higher principle,...
Página 101 - Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Página 260 - Tenets and policies, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away but have been stripped away by Time and the progress of events, fulfilling some policies, blotting out others. All has been lost, except office or the hope of it.
Página 244 - Where men are not acquainted with each other's principles, nor experienced in each other's talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business ; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them ; it is evidently impossible that they can act a publick part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy.
Página 345 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 395 - Garnait. They made the prayer, and health came to him. After that Columcille gave to Drostan that town, and blessed it, and left as (his) word, 'Whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared [or] victorious.' Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcill, 'Let DEAR [deara= tears] be its name henceforward.
Página 123 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!