The Academy, Band 19

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J. Murray, 1881
 

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Seite 204 - Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Seite 8 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Seite 118 - It is not in acted, as it is in written History : actual events are nowise so simply related to each. other as parent and offspring are...
Seite 170 - In ways perhaps eluding all the statements, lore and speculations of ten thousand years— eluding all possible statements to mortal sense— does he yet exist, a definite, vital being, a spirit, an individual— perhaps now wafted in space among those stellar systems, which, suggestive and limitless as they are, merely edge more limitless, far more suggestive systems? I have no doubt of it. In silence, of a fine night, such questions are answer'd to the soul, the best answers that can be given.
Seite 179 - Emphatic I have heard him beyond all men. In anger he had no need of oaths ; his words were like sharp arrows that smote into the very heart.
Seite 109 - THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Seite 93 - No love, no hate, no hope, no fear, No anguish, and no mirth ; Thus life extends from year to year, A flat of sullen dearth. Ah ! life's blood creepeth cold and tame, Life's thought plays no new part : I never cared for the singer's fame, But, oh ! for the singer's heart once more — The bleeding, passionate heart 1 SONG.
Seite 58 - There is much to attract the scholar in this volume. It does not pretend to popularise studies which are yet in their infancy. Its primary object is to translate, but it does not assume to be more than tentative, and it offers both to the professed Assyriologist and to the ordinary non-Assyriological Semitic scholar the means of controlling its results."— Academy.
Seite 180 - Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man, hobbled about with us, talking with a kind of solemn emphasis on matters which were of no interest...
Seite 2 - ... is before all things necessary to strengthen the inner monitions by the companionship of these noble souls. And if a poet, by strong concentration of thought, by striving in all things along the upward way, can leave us in a few pages, as it were, a summary of patriotism, a manual of national honour, he surely has his place among his country's benefactors not only by that kind of courtesy which the nation extends to men of letters of whom her masses take little heed, but with a title as assured...

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