The Quarterly Review, Том 147John Murray, 1879 |
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... living by his wits - Richier de Louvain - who at the time acted as secretary to the great Monsieur de Voltaire . The sage happened then to be involved in his notorious - it may even be called scandalous - law - suit with the Jew broker ...
... living by his wits - Richier de Louvain - who at the time acted as secretary to the great Monsieur de Voltaire . The sage happened then to be involved in his notorious - it may even be called scandalous - law - suit with the Jew broker ...
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... living wretchedly on the pittances to be derived from literary drudgeries . Having relations with men of con- siderable influence at Berlin in high circles , Kleist appealed to them with passionate eagerness to bestir themselves with ...
... living wretchedly on the pittances to be derived from literary drudgeries . Having relations with men of con- siderable influence at Berlin in high circles , Kleist appealed to them with passionate eagerness to bestir themselves with ...
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... living with the Governor . Indeed , Lessing might have made a fortune easily . It is well known how Frederick was driven to have recourse to questionable currency devices . The Silesian Mint was largely concerned in these , and so ...
... living with the Governor . Indeed , Lessing might have made a fortune easily . It is well known how Frederick was driven to have recourse to questionable currency devices . The Silesian Mint was largely concerned in these , and so ...
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... living voice was wholly absent . After a year we find him exclaiming to Gleim , More and more does the dust of books fall on my nerves ; soon these will be wholly incapable of delicate sensation . ' At intervals , indeed , he would run ...
... living voice was wholly absent . After a year we find him exclaiming to Gleim , More and more does the dust of books fall on my nerves ; soon these will be wholly incapable of delicate sensation . ' At intervals , indeed , he would run ...
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... living persons . Still this did not remove all suspicion , and in Gotha the Duke prohibited a performance that might lend itself to inferences unfavourable to august personages . In spite of so much calculated to give umbrage to ...
... living persons . Still this did not remove all suspicion , and in Gotha the Duke prohibited a performance that might lend itself to inferences unfavourable to august personages . In spite of so much calculated to give umbrage to ...
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Страница 465 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Страница 303 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Страница 439 - Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets : and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Страница 320 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Страница 371 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Страница 86 - The summit of excellence seems to be an assemblage of contrary qualities, but mixed in such proportions that no one part is found to counteract the other.
Страница 97 - In the former, all was imagination and improbability; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. — But if in the latter species Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversation of the heroes and heroines of ancient days were as...
Страница 372 - Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall Of earthly art is vain ; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed, What are they when the double death is nigh ? The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest My soul, that turns to His great love on high, Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.
Страница 269 - The great and firm body of the Whigs of England, true to their principles, have decided on the dispute between Mr Fox and Mr Burke; and the former is declared to have maintained the pure doctrines by which they are bound together, and upon which they have invariably acted. The consequence is, that Mr Burke retires from parliament.
Страница 551 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.