The Quarterly Review, 228. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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... give Jane Austen's readers such unending delight . ' Lady Susan ' is the first of her books to call for comment . It is not good ; it is crude and hard , with the usual hardness of youth . Yet it is so important to the study of its ...
... give Jane Austen's readers such unending delight . ' Lady Susan ' is the first of her books to call for comment . It is not good ; it is crude and hard , with the usual hardness of youth . Yet it is so important to the study of its ...
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... delight in their absurdity which gives to them an objective ebullience not to be found in more richly comic studies Vol . 228.-No. 452 . C 6 such as Lady Bertram or Mr Woodhouse . Nor JANE AUSTEN 17 The Irish Problem.
... delight in their absurdity which gives to them an objective ebullience not to be found in more richly comic studies Vol . 228.-No. 452 . C 6 such as Lady Bertram or Mr Woodhouse . Nor JANE AUSTEN 17 The Irish Problem.
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... give you twelve periods of pleasure repeated , as many readings of ' Emma ' give you that pleasure , not repeated 6 Heavens , let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma - Wood- houseing me ! ' - ' Emma , ' Cap . XXXII - a typical ...
... give you twelve periods of pleasure repeated , as many readings of ' Emma ' give you that pleasure , not repeated 6 Heavens , let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma - Wood- houseing me ! ' - ' Emma , ' Cap . XXXII - a typical ...
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... gives us quite clear warning of what we are to see . We are to see the gradual humiliation of self - conceit , through a long self - wrought succession of disasters , serious in effect , but keyed in Comedy through- out . Emma herself ...
... gives us quite clear warning of what we are to see . We are to see the gradual humiliation of self - conceit , through a long self - wrought succession of disasters , serious in effect , but keyed in Comedy through- out . Emma herself ...
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... give Jane Fairfax a lift in our sympathy at her critical moment , while Emma's repent- ance afterwards is just what is wanted to win us back to Emma's side again , in time for the coming catastrophe . And even Elton's broad handsome ...
... give Jane Fairfax a lift in our sympathy at her critical moment , while Emma's repent- ance afterwards is just what is wanted to win us back to Emma's side again , in time for the coming catastrophe . And even Elton's broad handsome ...
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Page 318 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 243 - A little time that we may fill Or with such good works or such ill As loose the bonds or make them strong Wherein all manhood suffers wrong. By rose-hung river and light-foot rill There are who rest not ; who think long Till they discern as from a hill At the sun's hour of morning song, Known of souls only, and those souls free, The sacred spaces of the sea.
Page 317 - ... at least one college in each state, ' where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 247 - Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown, The just Fate gives; Whoso takes the world's life on him and his own lays down, He, dying so, lives. "Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the wronged world's weight And puts it by, It is well with him suffering, though he face man's fate; How should he die? 'Seeing death has no part in him any more, no power Upon his head; He has bought his eternity with a little hour, And is not dead.
Page 241 - Slumber and sorrow and pleasure, Vision of virtue and crime; Till consummate with conquering eyes, A soul disembodied, it rise From the body transfigured of time...
Page 401 - Government and people are under to these hardworking capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some instances the planters and the fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction of roads and other public works, and to pay for all the other costs of administration.
Page 401 - ... as contractors they constructed nearly all the Government buildings, most of the roads and bridges, railways and waterworks. They brought all the capital into the country when Europeans feared to take the risk ; they were the traders and shopkeepers, and it was their steamers which first opened regular communication between the ports of the colony and the ports of the Malay States.
Page 247 - But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take the light from heaven, or climb The hills of heaven with wasting feet. Songs they can stop that earth found meet, But the stars keep their ageless rhyme ; Flowers they can slay that spring thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime j Passions and pleasures can defeat, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul.
Page 68 - The uncivilized man indeed has not many more than the brute animal; but every step in his progress upwards increases the variety of his needs together with the variety in his methods of satisfying them. He desires not merely larger quantities of the things he has been accustomed to consume, but better qualities of those things; he desires a greater choice of things, and things that will satisfy new wants growing up in him.
Page 36 - That both on the grounds of fact and of theory there is the highest degree of probability that feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin— that is, not due to influences acting on the parents — and tends strongly to be inherited.