The North British Review, Volume 15W.P. Kennedy, 1851 - English literature |
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... readers to infer it ) from a comparison of the free and somewhat dashing penmanship of Dickens , as exhibited to the ... reader on the condition that he make no ungrateful application of it , is that the critic should deliberately copy ...
... readers to infer it ) from a comparison of the free and somewhat dashing penmanship of Dickens , as exhibited to the ... reader on the condition that he make no ungrateful application of it , is that the critic should deliberately copy ...
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... reading acquaintance with their works ; namely , that Mr. Thackeray is the more terse and idiomatic , and Mr. Dickens the more diffuse and luxuriant writer . Both seem to be easy penmen , and to have language very readily.
... reading acquaintance with their works ; namely , that Mr. Thackeray is the more terse and idiomatic , and Mr. Dickens the more diffuse and luxuriant writer . Both seem to be easy penmen , and to have language very readily.
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... readers in behalf of the principal personage of the story , on the ground that not having meant to represent him as a hero , but only as a man and a brother , " he has ex- posed his foibles rather too freely . So , also , in almost all ...
... readers in behalf of the principal personage of the story , on the ground that not having meant to represent him as a hero , but only as a man and a brother , " he has ex- posed his foibles rather too freely . So , also , in almost all ...
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... readers conceive a rouged old duchess without her wig and false teeth , an elderly Adonis without his padding and stays , or a romantic young lady eating Common Charges against Thackeray . 79 2 voraciously in her 78 Pendennis and ...
... readers conceive a rouged old duchess without her wig and false teeth , an elderly Adonis without his padding and stays , or a romantic young lady eating Common Charges against Thackeray . 79 2 voraciously in her 78 Pendennis and ...
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... readers do not like Mr. Thackeray's writings is , that they find them too personal in their allusions . So much the better . There are many corners of society , " frae Maidenkirk to John o ' Groat's , " as well as farther south , into ...
... readers do not like Mr. Thackeray's writings is , that they find them too personal in their allusions . So much the better . There are many corners of society , " frae Maidenkirk to John o ' Groat's , " as well as farther south , into ...
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Page 263 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within...
Page 336 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 337 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 263 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify ; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 263 - Where we attribute to the queen's majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended: we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's word or of the sacraments...
Page 164 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct...
Page 452 - ... on you, from the great inner Sea of Beauty! How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning: "The Beautiful," he intimates, "is higher than the Good: the Beautiful includes in it the Good.
Page 453 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 410 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 452 - Poet on what the Germans call the aesthetic side, as Beautiful, and the like. The one we may call a revealer of what we are to do, the other of what we are to love. But indeed these two provinces run into one another, and cannot be disjoined. The Prophet too has his eye on what we are to love: how else shall he know what it is we are to do? The highest Voice ever heard on this earth said withal, "Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was...