The New Review, Volumen6

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Longmans, Green, 1892
 

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Página 341 - The curves of beauty are not softly wrought : These quivering limbs by strong hid muscles held In attitudes of wonder, and compelled Through shapes more sinuous than a sculptor's thought, Tell of dull matter splendidly distraught, Whisper of mutinies divinely quelled, — Weak indolence of flesh, that long rebelled, The spirit's domination bravely taught. And all man's loveliest works are cut with pain. Beneath the perfect art we know the strain, Intense, defined, how deep soe'er it lies. From each...
Página 156 - Free virtue should enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience.
Página 489 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Página 355 - No game was ever yet worth a rap For a rational man to play, Into which no accident, no mishap, Could possibly find its way.
Página 224 - to inquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts, and of the principles of design, among the people (especially the manufacturing population) of the country ; also to inquire into the constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected with the arts.
Página 329 - If there is one thing more certain than another, it is that, as the popular element increases, that government recedes from aristocracy and monarchy toward republicanism.
Página 2 - Sirius and the Pleiades are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar.
Página 142 - III. finally, multiply the second and third terms together, divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the third term.
Página 560 - If poets and players are to be restrained, let them be restrained as other subjects are, by the known laws of their country : if they offend, let them be tried as every Englishman ought to be, by God and their country. Do not let us subject them to the arbitrary will and pleasure of any one man. A power lodged in the hands of a single man to judge and determine without limitation, control, or appeal, is a sort of power unknown to our laws, inconsistent with our constitution.
Página 243 - Tess Durbeyfield did not divine, as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom, that there behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the ' tragic mischief of her drama — one who stood fair to be the blood-red ray in the spectrum of her young life.

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