The British Quarterly Review, Volume 26Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1857 - Christianity |
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... believe that the agriculture of Britain was in a more prosperous state under the Romans , than at any period in our history during the next thousand years after their departure . The Romans not only tilled our soil , they went beneath ...
... believe that the agriculture of Britain was in a more prosperous state under the Romans , than at any period in our history during the next thousand years after their departure . The Romans not only tilled our soil , they went beneath ...
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... believe . The Anglo - Saxons , unhappily , were nearly always at war , either among themselves , or in resisting invasion . But even in these circumstances the industrious habits of the people are con- spicuous . The names of our old ...
... believe . The Anglo - Saxons , unhappily , were nearly always at war , either among themselves , or in resisting invasion . But even in these circumstances the industrious habits of the people are con- spicuous . The names of our old ...
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... believe , were known in all the great marts of the Con- tinent . Thus we find Charlemagne writing to Offa , King of Mercia , saying that the French merchants were complaining that certain woollen cloths exported from England were not of ...
... believe , were known in all the great marts of the Con- tinent . Thus we find Charlemagne writing to Offa , King of Mercia , saying that the French merchants were complaining that certain woollen cloths exported from England were not of ...
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... believe , ' said he , " I am the only man living that has given himself serious trouble ' to investigate and elucidate the causes . ' Perhaps we ought not to construe a dreamy soliloquy , spoken in the dread presence of the forty ...
... believe , ' said he , " I am the only man living that has given himself serious trouble ' to investigate and elucidate the causes . ' Perhaps we ought not to construe a dreamy soliloquy , spoken in the dread presence of the forty ...
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... believe , was the first foreigner who suc- ceeded in penetrating to the seat of war and opening a commu- nication with the chiefs of the rebel ' armies , of whose proceed- ings we have heard so much . This step was eminently adventurous ...
... believe , was the first foreigner who suc- ceeded in penetrating to the seat of war and opening a commu- nication with the chiefs of the rebel ' armies , of whose proceed- ings we have heard so much . This step was eminently adventurous ...
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Page 204 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 203 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 204 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 522 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page 207 - Sat.—I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 205 - SHAKESPEARE, at length thy pious fellows give The world thy Works: thy Works, by which, out-live Thy Tomb, thy name must when that stone is rent, And Time dissolves thy Stratford Monument, Here we alive shall view thee still. This Book, When Brass and Marble fade, shall make thee look Fresh to all Ages...
Page 203 - Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right...
Page 205 - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day but for thy volume's light.
Page 163 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide...
Page 218 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell) what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.