The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen153A. Constable, 1881 |
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Página 468 - This year I found that I had conquered all my scepticisms, agonising doubtings, fearful wrestlings with the foul and vile and soul-murdering Mud-gods of my epoch ; had escaped, as from a worse than Tartarus, with all its Phlegethons and Stygian quagmires, and was emerging free in spirit into the eternal blue of ether...
Página 468 - What my pious joy and gratitude then was, let the pious soul figure. In a fine and veritable sense, I, poor, obscure, without outlook, almost without worldly hope, had become independent of the world. What was death itself, from the world, to what I had come through ? I understood well what the old Christian people meant by " conversion," by God's infinite mercy to them.
Página 130 - A book rich in the results of speculative study, broad in its intellectual grasp, and happy in its original suggestiveness. To Dr. Caird we are indebted for a subtle and masterly presentation of Hegel's philosophy in its solution of the problem of religion.
Página 66 - He was, indeed, a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew.
Página 102 - Yes, darling ; let them go ;" so ran the strain : " Yes ; let them go, gain, fashion, pleasure, power, And all the busy elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, ami all the ftiture mine.
Página 112 - ... peas, but were I to dress the dandy and the minister the same, it would be bad taste — it would be ridiculous. No man gives me the trouble which Lord Eglantine does ; he has not made up his mind whether he will be a great poet or Prime Minister. " You must choose, my lord,
Página 373 - Roland, Roland, yet wind one blast ! Karl will hear ere the gorge be passed, And the Franks return on their path full fast." " I will not sound on mine ivory horn : It shall never be spoken of me in scorn, That for heathen felons one blast I blew; I may not dishonor my lineage true.
Página 379 - That death was on him he knew full well ; Down from his head to his heart it fell. On the grass beneath a pine-tree's shade, With face to earth, his form he laid, Beneath him placed he his horn and sword, And turned his face to the heathen horde. Thus hath he done the sooth to show, That Karl and his warriors all may know, That the gentle count a conqueror died. Mea...
Página 480 - French (though of course our very road would have to be enquired after) ; to have had no bother and no need of human assistance or society, not even of refection, French's breakfast perfectly sufficing us. The talk had grown ever friendlier, more interesting. At length the declining sun said plainly, you must part. We sauntered slowly into the Glasgow- Muirkirk highway.
Página 472 - Truly may it be said, the Divinity has withdrawn from the Earth ; or veils himself in that wide-wasting Whirlwind of a departing Era, wherein the fewest can discern his goings. Not Godhead, / but an iron, ignoble circle of Necessity embraces all things ; binds the youth of these times into a sluggish thrall, or else exasperates him into a rebel. Heroic Action is paralysed ; for what worth now remains unquestionable with him"?