The Edinburgh Review, Volume 227A. and C. Black, 1918 |
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Página 51 - 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.
Página 275 - 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.
Página 210 - When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Página 283 - That Yell'ham says, Nor that Life is for ends unknown. It says that Life would signify A thwarted purposing : That we come to live, and are called to die. Yes, that's the thing In fall, in spring, That Yell'ham says : — " Life offers — to deny !
Página 251 - 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.
Página 245 - ... to hide from them the true cause of their poverty. When the wages of labour are hardly sufficient to maintain two children, a man marries and has five or six; he of course finds himself miserably distressed.
Página 276 - DEAR Lizbie Browne, Where are you now ? In sun, in rain ? — Or is your brow Past joy, past pain, Dear Lizbie Browne...
Página 335 - 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...
Página 120 - 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...
Página 286 - I BENT in the deep of night Over a pedigree the chronicler gave As mine ; and as I bent there, half-unrobed, The uncurtained panes of my window-square let in the watery light Of the moon in its old age : And green-rheumed clouds were hurrying past where mute and cold it globed Like a drifting dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave.