The Quarterly Review, Volume 241John Murray, 1924 - English literature |
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... comedy . There is no other remedy against imposture except time . Need we , however , fall in with all the melancholy conclusions of the pessimists in regard to humour and the present age ? Humorless literature may be more popular than ...
... comedy . There is no other remedy against imposture except time . Need we , however , fall in with all the melancholy conclusions of the pessimists in regard to humour and the present age ? Humorless literature may be more popular than ...
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Nature herself into the darkened rooms of solemn and perilous pretence . Her comedy may not have the preciseness of satire , but it has the lightness of an April wind that goes dancing here and there and brings health and exhilaration ...
Nature herself into the darkened rooms of solemn and perilous pretence . Her comedy may not have the preciseness of satire , but it has the lightness of an April wind that goes dancing here and there and brings health and exhilaration ...
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... comedy about the tradition that he reverences , but the reverence for tradition is implicit in his work , and it is ... comedy would be a mere literary House of Lords for the retardation of change . Comedy , indeed , though it is ...
... comedy about the tradition that he reverences , but the reverence for tradition is implicit in his work , and it is ... comedy would be a mere literary House of Lords for the retardation of change . Comedy , indeed , though it is ...
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... comedy , I fancy , are in the reason , and the unreasonable animal called man may as easily be absurd in his inheritance as in his inventions . The bitter laughter of ' Troilus and Cressida ' is directed , not against man as he is ...
... comedy , I fancy , are in the reason , and the unreasonable animal called man may as easily be absurd in his inheritance as in his inventions . The bitter laughter of ' Troilus and Cressida ' is directed , not against man as he is ...
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... comedy . Gilbert , I suppose , was as orthodox a Conservative , but he could not indulge his comic genius in ' Iolanthe ' without mischievously lampooning the House of Lords : " The House of Lords throughout the war Did nothing in ...
... comedy . Gilbert , I suppose , was as orthodox a Conservative , but he could not indulge his comic genius in ' Iolanthe ' without mischievously lampooning the House of Lords : " The House of Lords throughout the war Did nothing in ...
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Page 262 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 288 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full...
Page 263 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 347 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
Page 284 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
Page 362 - The nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath.
Page 362 - Of that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...
Page 280 - Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Page 279 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Page 320 - Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of the human intellect. The text books tell us that an element is ' a body which has not been decomposed ;' that it is ' a something to which we can add, but from which we can take nothing,' or ' a body which increases in weight with every chemical change.