The Quarterly Review, Volumen122William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1867 |
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... true Cockney , ' saith Hazlitt , ' is your only true leveller . Let him be as low as he will , he fancies he is as good as anybody else . ' The faults of Hazlitt were the more disagree- able because the man was one of those warm ...
... true Cockney , ' saith Hazlitt , ' is your only true leveller . Let him be as low as he will , he fancies he is as good as anybody else . ' The faults of Hazlitt were the more disagree- able because the man was one of those warm ...
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... true analysis of the elements in vulgarity , vulgar from affectation , the affectation of knowing intimately things which he could not possibly know at all . His mistake was aggravated , because it was a kind of knowledge which , as a ...
... true analysis of the elements in vulgarity , vulgar from affectation , the affectation of knowing intimately things which he could not possibly know at all . His mistake was aggravated , because it was a kind of knowledge which , as a ...
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... true spirit of criticism than these invidious comparisons between persons who essentially differ . In art as in nature varieties cannot be illus- trated by opposing in a hostile spirit things that are of dissimilar genus . We grant this ...
... true spirit of criticism than these invidious comparisons between persons who essentially differ . In art as in nature varieties cannot be illus- trated by opposing in a hostile spirit things that are of dissimilar genus . We grant this ...
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... true genius of Charles Lamb find its natural scope . It is not on these that he rests the enduring reputation of Elia . ' Happily for us and for him , he found in the pages of a Magazine precisely the field best suited to exercise ...
... true genius of Charles Lamb find its natural scope . It is not on these that he rests the enduring reputation of Elia . ' Happily for us and for him , he found in the pages of a Magazine precisely the field best suited to exercise ...
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... True that the board is sufficiently Socratic , but it is pleasant to think how little the hospitality of a man of genius need cost him when he adds to ' the cold joint and the foaming tankard ' the eloquence and the wit not to be found ...
... True that the board is sufficiently Socratic , but it is pleasant to think how little the hospitality of a man of genius need cost him when he adds to ' the cold joint and the foaming tankard ' the eloquence and the wit not to be found ...
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Página 82 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Página 443 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Página 235 - tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; One good-sized diamond in a pin — Some, not so large, in rings — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire (Good, heavy silks are never dear); I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.
Página 234 - That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen!
Página 229 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Página 63 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 64 - I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
Página 76 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Página 187 - ... shall suffer from henceforth no torches nor candles, tapers, or images of wax, to be set afore any image or picture, but only two lights upon the high altar, before the sacrament, which for the signification that Christ is the very true light of the world, they shall suffer to remain still...
Página 64 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back...