The Quarterly Review, Band 48William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1832 |
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... character , is thrown a poetic and imaginative colouring ; the bard - chronicler never abandons the privilege , the attribute of his art ; and until history has condescended to the sober march of prose , it does not restrain itself from ...
... character , is thrown a poetic and imaginative colouring ; the bard - chronicler never abandons the privilege , the attribute of his art ; and until history has condescended to the sober march of prose , it does not restrain itself from ...
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... characters of their princes , and the acts of their reigns ? Where such traces of mind exist , we can hardly believe ... character of B 2 Brahminism Brahminism , of which Colonel Tod seems perfectly aware ( Tod's Annals and Antiquities ...
... characters of their princes , and the acts of their reigns ? Where such traces of mind exist , we can hardly believe ... character of B 2 Brahminism Brahminism , of which Colonel Tod seems perfectly aware ( Tod's Annals and Antiquities ...
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... character of Chund and the Rajput bards , whose songs seem to approach so much nearer to the truth of history , is to be traced to the foreign , the Scythian or Tartar , ori- gin of the race . It was the policy , as well as the genius ...
... character of Chund and the Rajput bards , whose songs seem to approach so much nearer to the truth of history , is to be traced to the foreign , the Scythian or Tartar , ori- gin of the race . It was the policy , as well as the genius ...
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... character of the author in the reader's estimation . That the impression was deep and permanent we learn from Bishop Heber . All the provinces of Mewar were , for a considerable time after the connexion with the British government ...
... character of the author in the reader's estimation . That the impression was deep and permanent we learn from Bishop Heber . All the provinces of Mewar were , for a considerable time after the connexion with the British government ...
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... character , yet have given place to almost Grecian free- dom and regularity of design , blending with a richness of detail , which may be said to form a kind of florid oriental Gothic . These monuments , of which there are many ...
... character , yet have given place to almost Grecian free- dom and regularity of design , blending with a richness of detail , which may be said to form a kind of florid oriental Gothic . These monuments , of which there are many ...
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amongst ancient appear Archilochus Bachaumont beautiful better blood called Callinus Chalmers character Charlemagne Charles X Cheetore chief Christian church coach Colonel Tod doubt Earle effect elegy England eyes favour feel France give gnomic Greek Hall Hall's hand head Hesiod hexameter honour horses human imagination king Kotah labour Lady land less look Lord Lord Arlington Louis Louis Philippe Louis XVI Louis XVIII manner Marwar means ment Mewar Mimnermus mind ministers moral nation native nature never object observed opinion parish party passage perhaps persons poet poetry political poor population possession present prince principle race Rajasthan Rajpoot reader religion remarkable respect retina revolution Sarrans savages says scarcely Scythian Seaward seems seen society sovereign spirit supposed Theognis things thought tion tribes truth Tyrtæus verse whilst whole Zealand
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Seite 61 - That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Seite 93 - O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides.
Seite 89 - Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve ! Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Seite 551 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Seite 184 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 124 - He shall not strive, nor cry, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Seite 116 - Eternal God ! on what are thine enemies intent ! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of Heaven must not penetrate!" — he asked, "Did I say penetrate, sir, when I preached it?
Seite 104 - ... or those who have opposed him, will be alike forgotten. Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapours which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide...
Seite 116 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...
Seite 115 - Christianity ; if by an appeal to authority, what have our adversaries to oppose to those great names ? Where are the infidels of such pure, uncontaminated morals, unshaken probity, and extended benevolence, that we should be in danger of being seduced into impiety by their example ? Into what obscure recesses of misery, into what dungeons have their philanthropists penetrated, to lighten...