The Quarterly Review, Volume 141John Murray, 1876 |
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... passed through the town , might be seen the troops of Henry IV . despatched against the insurrection of the Percies ; while , in the civil wars , when Warwick , the King - maker , launched the forces of the Lancastrians against Edward ...
... passed through the town , might be seen the troops of Henry IV . despatched against the insurrection of the Percies ; while , in the civil wars , when Warwick , the King - maker , launched the forces of the Lancastrians against Edward ...
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... passing through these * According to the original design , there were no marble chimney - pieces . The first was introduced by the second Earl in 1612 , for which he paid 501. His father had a keener artistic instinct . spacious ...
... passing through these * According to the original design , there were no marble chimney - pieces . The first was introduced by the second Earl in 1612 , for which he paid 501. His father had a keener artistic instinct . spacious ...
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... passed the breath of other centuries . The eyes of distant generations have wandered over their contents . The spirit which once animated them is before us , not as in the imagination of the poet , or in the narrative of the historian ...
... passed the breath of other centuries . The eyes of distant generations have wandered over their contents . The spirit which once animated them is before us , not as in the imagination of the poet , or in the narrative of the historian ...
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... passed safely through two of the most critical phases of its existence , have blinded men to the difficulty of the problems these ministers had to solve , and have equally blinded them to the industry , prudence , forethought , and ...
... passed safely through two of the most critical phases of its existence , have blinded men to the difficulty of the problems these ministers had to solve , and have equally blinded them to the industry , prudence , forethought , and ...
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... passed which he describes as the duration of this visit to Leicester , his mother must have been convinced of the truth of what her son already had been told by a person of great honour in Ireland , " who was " pleased to stoop so low ...
... passed which he describes as the duration of this visit to Leicester , his mother must have been convinced of the truth of what her son already had been told by a person of great honour in Ireland , " who was " pleased to stoop so low ...
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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.