The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... winds . ' In some new place , in some new surroundings , they hope to find rest from the aimless discontent that gnaws them . " While our Western playwrights , confined within the boundaries of the attainable , wage a heavy - handed ...
... winds . ' In some new place , in some new surroundings , they hope to find rest from the aimless discontent that gnaws them . " While our Western playwrights , confined within the boundaries of the attainable , wage a heavy - handed ...
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... wind , the caravans go by , the dust flies , cities fall to ruin ; but my eyes , which nothing can turn away , gaze for ever beyond the visible towards unattainable horizons . ' The lesser ideals that man sets before him cannot quench ...
... wind , the caravans go by , the dust flies , cities fall to ruin ; but my eyes , which nothing can turn away , gaze for ever beyond the visible towards unattainable horizons . ' The lesser ideals that man sets before him cannot quench ...
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... wind glides by without shaking the curtain of the door . ' His groups of women coming and going are always delicious - the twelve Princesses , scornfully rebellious , threading to their places ; Laodamia's guests , stooping one by one ...
... wind glides by without shaking the curtain of the door . ' His groups of women coming and going are always delicious - the twelve Princesses , scornfully rebellious , threading to their places ; Laodamia's guests , stooping one by one ...
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... wind whistles through them . How refreshing after this is the live , warm , pantheistic world of Shakespeare or of Tchekhof ! They loved everything that God created for its own sake . Turned in upon themselves , cut off from the ...
... wind whistles through them . How refreshing after this is the live , warm , pantheistic world of Shakespeare or of Tchekhof ! They loved everything that God created for its own sake . Turned in upon themselves , cut off from the ...
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... wind at sou'west , boys , We hove our ship to , for to strike soundings clear ; We got soundings in ninety - five fathoms , and boldly Up the channel of old England our course we did steer . The first land we made it was called the ...
... wind at sou'west , boys , We hove our ship to , for to strike soundings clear ; We got soundings in ninety - five fathoms , and boldly Up the channel of old England our course we did steer . The first land we made it was called the ...
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Page 175 - Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
Page 397 - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth. And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing, never vanishes. To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro' heaven, Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, Thou...