The Calcutta Review, Volumen10University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... interests of Society are affected thereby . Wherever the European moves , he carries with him his cloud of prejudices to obstruct his vision : and , wherever the Anglo- Indian takes up his position , the same circle is woven round him ...
... interests of Society are affected thereby . Wherever the European moves , he carries with him his cloud of prejudices to obstruct his vision : and , wherever the Anglo- Indian takes up his position , the same circle is woven round him ...
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... interest , to cement , what his personal ability and success alone had brought together . The paraphernalia of power , and the ostentation of ruling , the splendour of his palaces and retinue , and the magnitude and fame of his armies ...
... interest , to cement , what his personal ability and success alone had brought together . The paraphernalia of power , and the ostentation of ruling , the splendour of his palaces and retinue , and the magnitude and fame of his armies ...
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... interests : the tracking of crime was thus rendered impracticable , and all administration of civil jus- tice rendered impossible . General improvement , such as the construction of roads , the protection of merchants , and the other ...
... interests : the tracking of crime was thus rendered impracticable , and all administration of civil jus- tice rendered impossible . General improvement , such as the construction of roads , the protection of merchants , and the other ...
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... interests are effected , and true it is of him still , though nearly forty years have elapsed : ideas of justice he has none , except that the strongest has a right to appropriate , and that it is the privilege of the weakest to submit ...
... interests are effected , and true it is of him still , though nearly forty years have elapsed : ideas of justice he has none , except that the strongest has a right to appropriate , and that it is the privilege of the weakest to submit ...
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... interests , that belong not to the passing day . The heroic is en- tombed . Instead of inventing new works , or illustrating profound or soaring ideas , it is more congenial to the mocking spirit of our times to travesty all that is old ...
... interests , that belong not to the passing day . The heroic is en- tombed . Instead of inventing new works , or illustrating profound or soaring ideas , it is more congenial to the mocking spirit of our times to travesty all that is old ...
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Página 258 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 28 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Página 140 - I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon. Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Página 71 - So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 97 - Far sinking into splendour — without end! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright In avenues disposed : there towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars...
Página 96 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 54 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Página 134 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Página 112 - Hail, Sabbath ! thee I hail, the poor man's day : The pale mechanic now has leave to breathe The morning air pure from the city's smoke...
Página 97 - I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul...