The Fortnightly, Հատոր 27,Հատոր 33Chapman and Hall., 1880 |
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Էջ 582 - She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave...
Էջ 211 - To secure for that parliament, under a federal arrangement, the right of legislating for and regulating all matters relating to the internal affairs of Ireland, and control over Irish resources and revenues, subject to the obligation of contributing our just proportion of the Imperial expenditure.
Էջ 575 - Visionary power Attends the motions of the viewless winds, Embodied in the mystery of words : There, darkness makes abode, and all the host Of shadowy things work endless changes, — there, As in a mansion like their proper home, Even forms and substances are circumfused By that transparent veil with light divine, And, through the turnings intricate of verse, Present themselves as objects recognised, In flashes, and with glory not their own.
Էջ 550 - One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. Thero is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A new world of inventions — of railways and of telegraphs — has grown up around us, which we cannot help seeing ; a new world of ideas is in the air, and affects us, though we do not see it.
Էջ 473 - I became surprised to see them in an oblong form, which, according to the received laws of Refraction, I expected should have been circular...
Էջ 39 - Among their first results should be a sedulous and special attention to the interests of the poor, founded upon the rule that those who are the least able to take care of themselves should be most regarded by others. Particularly it is a duty to endeavour, by every means, that labour may receive adequate remuneration ; which, unhappily, among several classes of our fellow-countrymen is not now the case.
Էջ 575 - Where the infant frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet ; And the red and golden vines, Piercing with their trellised lines The rough, dark-skirted wilderness...
Էջ 38 - For the mitigation of those evils, we must, I think, look not only to particular measures, but to the restoration of sounder general principles. I mean especially that principle, on which alone the incorporation of Religion with the State, in our Constitution, can be defended ; that the duties of Governors are strictly and peculiarly religious ; and that Legislatures, like Individuals, are bound to carry throughout their acts the spirit of the high truths they have acknowledged.
Էջ 581 - All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the Middle Age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.
Էջ 728 - This remarkable success is a proof that the new organization has] succeeded in uniting all sections of the party, and it is a conclusive answer to the fears which some timid Liberals entertained that the system would be manipulated in the interest of particular crotchets* It has, on the contrary, deepened and extended the interest felt in the contest; it has fastened a sense of personal responsibility on the electors; and it has secured the active support, for the most part voluntary and unpaid,...