The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 161A. Constable, 1885 |
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Seite 150 - For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store ; And other, that hath...
Seite 461 - I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of the Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life not for this life only, but...
Seite 164 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being...
Seite 57 - In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight : — Temples, baths, or halls ? Pronounce who can ; for all that Learning reap'd From her research hath been, that these are walls — Behold the Imperial Mount! 'tis thus the mighty falls.
Seite 530 - Light and easily broken ties are what I neither desire theoretically nor could live for practically. Women who are satisfied with such ties do not act as I have done...
Seite 148 - As when a swarme of gnats at eventide Out of the fennes of Allan doe arise, Their murmuring small...
Seite 466 - Readers who have been led to believe that the Vedas of the ancient Brahmans, the Avesta of the Zoroastrians, the Tripitaka of the Buddhists, the Kings of Confucius, or the Koran of Mohammed are books full of primeval wisdom and religious enthusiasm, or at least of sound and simple moral teaching, will be disappointed on consulting these volumes.
Seite 243 - Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before? Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Seite 144 - For take thy ballaunce, if thou be so wise, And weigh the winde that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise ; Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow : But if the weight of these thou canst not show, Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth fall : For how canst thou those greater secrets know, That doest not know the least thing of them all ? Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Seite 152 - She often prayd, and often me besought, Sometime with tender teares to let her goe, Sometime with witching smyles ; but yet,, for nought That ever...