The Edinburgh Review, Volume 227A. and C. Black, 1918 - English literature |
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Page 47 - Meanwhile, at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests, — spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Page 281 - ON A MIDSUMMER EVE I IDLY cut a parsley stalk, And blew therein towards the moon ; I had not thought what ghosts would walk With shivering footsteps to my tune. I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand As if to drink, into the brook, And a faint figure seemed to stand Above me, with the bygone look. I lipped rough rhymes of chance, not choice, I thought not what my words might be ; There came into my ear a voice That turned a tenderer verse for me.
Page 259 - Almighty God with Whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with Whom the souls of the faithful after they are delivered from the burden of their earthly cares, are in joy and felicity...
Page 257 - And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake ; and the rocks were rent ; and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised ; and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.
Page 341 - State governments and the local institutions they protected. The feeling was very bitter, and in some States, notably in Massachusetts and New York, the majorities were dangerously narrow. Had the decision been left to what is now called "the voice of the people," that is, to the mass of the citizens all over the country, voting at the polls, the voice of the people...
Page 282 - DEAR Lizbie Browne, Where are you now ? In sun, in rain ? — Or is your brow Past joy, past pain, Dear Lizbie Browne...
Page 118 - It shall be the duty of the Food Controller to regulate the supply and consumption of food in such manner as he thinks best for maintaining a proper supply of food, and to take such steps as he thinks best for encouraging the production of food...
Page 276 - Stephen in the velveteen coat' obstinately turning upon 'theologies decayed and defunct, the origin of things, the constitution of matter, and the unreality of time'. To this period belongs also the earliest conception of The Dynasts, an old notebook containing, under the date 20 June 1875, the suggestion that the author should attempt 'An Iliad of Europe from 1789 to 1815'.