The Quarterly Review, Volume 141John Murray, 1876 |
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... things , immersed , as he seemed to be , in politics , with his abstracted air , and his large lustrous eyes apparently gazing on vacancy . His grounds absorbed as much of his attention as his house . The garden on the west side be ...
... things , immersed , as he seemed to be , in politics , with his abstracted air , and his large lustrous eyes apparently gazing on vacancy . His grounds absorbed as much of his attention as his house . The garden on the west side be ...
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... things else in the composition of my mind did still concur on my part to make me desirous of his favour . ' * The statement is strictly true . His forbearance towards the Earl , after many provocations , was remarkable . Even after the ...
... things else in the composition of my mind did still concur on my part to make me desirous of his favour . ' * The statement is strictly true . His forbearance towards the Earl , after many provocations , was remarkable . Even after the ...
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... thing to meet a man in the morn- ing who had a wry neck , a crooked back , and a splay foot.'§ So powerful was the influence of the Earl , or so audacious were his followers , that none dared to contradict them . But this animosity was ...
... thing to meet a man in the morn- ing who had a wry neck , a crooked back , and a splay foot.'§ So powerful was the influence of the Earl , or so audacious were his followers , that none dared to contradict them . But this animosity was ...
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... thing in itself , yet was considerable in the consequence , as very small circumstances often are in relation to the government of the world . About this time a general humour , in opposition to France , had made us throw off their ...
... thing in itself , yet was considerable in the consequence , as very small circumstances often are in relation to the government of the world . About this time a general humour , in opposition to France , had made us throw off their ...
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... things were so ordered , that the secretary having received a bribe , the deanery was disposed of to another , and Mr. Swift was put off with some other church livings , not worth above a third part of that rich deanery . The excuse ...
... things were so ordered , that the secretary having received a bribe , the deanery was disposed of to another , and Mr. Swift was put off with some other church livings , not worth above a third part of that rich deanery . The excuse ...
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Page 471 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 484 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 97 - Through the azure deep of air, Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues unborrowed of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far — but far above the great.
Page 500 - The Table, at the Communion-time having a fair white linen cloth upon it, shall stand in the Body of the Church, or in the Chancel, where Morning and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said.
Page 100 - 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 505 - And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place upon the Table so much Bread and Wine, as he shall think sufficient.
Page 99 - For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Page 506 - When the Priest, standing before the table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands, he shall say the prayer of Consecration, as followeth...
Page 473 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the ta&te.