The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Tập 184

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A. Constable, 1896
 

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Trang 308 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day...
Trang 305 - Scarce has she learnt to lisp the name Of martyr; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.
Trang 18 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, - subtle, sweet, mournful?
Trang 181 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Trang 74 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Trang 324 - These are the chief legal effects of marriage during the coverture; upon which we may observe, that even the disabilities which the wife lies under, are for the most part intended for her protection and benefit. So great a favourite is the female sex of the laws of England.
Trang 319 - And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
Trang 32 - Ay me ! Tis deaf, that ear Which joy'd my voice to hear ; Yet would I not disturb thee from thy tomb, Thus sleeping in thine Abbey's friendly shade, And the rough waves of life for ever laid ! I would not break thy rest, nor change thy doom. Even as my father, thou — Even as that loved, that well-recorded friend — Hast thy commission done ; ye both may now Wait for the leaven to work, the let to end.
Trang 50 - British as potential rebels, on the other, they had to contend with the sister community which, under the impetus and encouragement given by the British, was fast developing aggressive ambitions and tendencies. To cap all, the Muslims suffered from their...
Trang 297 - Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

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