The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 218. kötetA. Constable, 1913 |
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119. oldal
... letters . Before he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople ( 857 A.D. ) , he had been employed on a mission . in Assyria . Thence he sent to Tarasius the summaries of the 279 books which he had read , together with comments on their ...
... letters . Before he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople ( 857 A.D. ) , he had been employed on a mission . in Assyria . Thence he sent to Tarasius the summaries of the 279 books which he had read , together with comments on their ...
151. oldal
... letter and in concluding it with a spontaneous rhyme . But clever , ingenious , sometimes even brilliant , as Prior was , delightful as was the subdued and kindly gaiety of his temperament , and easy as was the flow of his verse , he ...
... letter and in concluding it with a spontaneous rhyme . But clever , ingenious , sometimes even brilliant , as Prior was , delightful as was the subdued and kindly gaiety of his temperament , and easy as was the flow of his verse , he ...
154. oldal
... letter was written Prior visited London obviously for the purpose of giving personal information to the King , whose policy was that stated by Prior at the end of 1696 as his own personal view : ' the success of the whole affair will ...
... letter was written Prior visited London obviously for the purpose of giving personal information to the King , whose policy was that stated by Prior at the end of 1696 as his own personal view : ' the success of the whole affair will ...
155. oldal
... waterworks and planting melons , and leaves his bashas to ruin the land , provided they are constant in bringing in their tribute , ' In a somewhat earlier letter he sends Charles Montague an 1913 155 DIPLOMATIST AND POET.
... waterworks and planting melons , and leaves his bashas to ruin the land , provided they are constant in bringing in their tribute , ' In a somewhat earlier letter he sends Charles Montague an 1913 155 DIPLOMATIST AND POET.
156. oldal
... letter : ' I promised to give you some account of the state of things here , and I think it may be done in one word , that the whole money of this nation is at Paris in the hands of the ... letters between him 156 July MATTHEW PRIOR ,
... letter : ' I promised to give you some account of the state of things here , and I think it may be done in one word , that the whole money of this nation is at Paris in the hands of the ... letters between him 156 July MATTHEW PRIOR ,
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283. oldal - old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of ' fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, ' and persons of quality : do you think that the spirits of such ' base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentle' men that have honour and courage and resolution in them
31. oldal - It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation ; and lastly that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a
114. oldal - of translation.' ' It were as wise [he said] to cast a violet ' into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle ' of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language ' into another the creations of a poet.
269. oldal - E se ben ti ricordi, e vedi lume, Vedrai te simigliante a quella inferma, Che non può trovar posa in su le piume. Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma.
206. oldal - of the Democratic party that the federal government has ' no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, ' except for the purposes of revenue only,' and although the Republicans ' reaffirmed the American doctrine of
121. oldal - Aurengzebe ' embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse : ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day.
116. oldal - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one-half by lazy sleep possest, And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast. Eternal troubles haunt thy anxious mind, Whose cause and
202. oldal - : ' Brief, on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight. And go with the hour. ' Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—O hark ! A fleet of bells set sails, And go with the dark. ' Sudden the cold airs swing. Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies with the cloud.
118. oldal - To cite another case, the following lines of ' Paradise Lost ' may be compared with the treatment accorded by Euripides to the same subject : 'Oh, why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as Angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
365. oldal - it. Sir, as you would a guinea, into small coin ?—which done—let the father of confusion puzzle you if he can ; or put a different idea either into your head, or your reader's head, if he knows how.