The National Review, Volume 11Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... head of Lello's family that , under the circumstances , it is a Christian duty to sanction the marriage . The petition is successful . The cardinal - vicar thinks that it is decidedly a case for his interference . He sends for Lello's ...
... head of Lello's family that , under the circumstances , it is a Christian duty to sanction the marriage . The petition is successful . The cardinal - vicar thinks that it is decidedly a case for his interference . He sends for Lello's ...
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... did see one vault From Charephon's black eyebrow to the head Of the philosopher . Strepsiades . And how did t'other Contrive to measure this ? D narrates his vehement love as a young man for the The Natural History of the Ancients . 33.
... did see one vault From Charephon's black eyebrow to the head Of the philosopher . Strepsiades . And how did t'other Contrive to measure this ? D narrates his vehement love as a young man for the The Natural History of the Ancients . 33.
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... head and the upper parts of the neck are bare , so that its eyelashes appear more hairy ; inasmuch as it is a bird , its lower parts are covered with feathers , and it has two feet like a bird , but cloven - hoofed like a mory ' and ...
... head and the upper parts of the neck are bare , so that its eyelashes appear more hairy ; inasmuch as it is a bird , its lower parts are covered with feathers , and it has two feet like a bird , but cloven - hoofed like a mory ' and ...
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... crossed the Alps at the head of their army , took Susa , imposed a French alliance on the Duke of Savoy , and drove the Spaniards out of Casale . Louis XIII . had courage , but not perseverance . Michelet's Life of Richelieu . 47.
... crossed the Alps at the head of their army , took Susa , imposed a French alliance on the Duke of Savoy , and drove the Spaniards out of Casale . Louis XIII . had courage , but not perseverance . Michelet's Life of Richelieu . 47.
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... alliance with Gustavus Adolphus . The Thirty - Years War was raging . The leaders of the Ca- tholic party were the two fanatical heads of the House of Austria , the Emperor Ferdinand II . and Philip IV . of Michelet's Life of Richelieu .
... alliance with Gustavus Adolphus . The Thirty - Years War was raging . The leaders of the Ca- tholic party were the two fanatical heads of the House of Austria , the Emperor Ferdinand II . and Philip IV . of Michelet's Life of Richelieu .
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Page 452 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Page 511 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 459 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Page 451 - It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
Page 463 - Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
Page 282 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page 451 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...
Page 200 - But good society, floated on gossamer wings of light irony, is of very expensive production; requiring nothing less than a wide and arduous national life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sweating at furnaces, grinding, hammering, weaving under more or less oppression of carbonic acid, or else, spread over sheepwalks, and scattered in lonely houses and huts on the clayey or chalky corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life...
Page 512 - Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. With narrative Illustrations, by ROBERT DALE OWEN. Post 8vo, Js. 6d. Spiritualism. — Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
Page 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...