Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 6Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1881 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adam Bede answered appeared asked beauty Berenice called Canada Canadian canoe Canon Farrar centreboard character Christ Christian Church dear death Desdemona divine doubt England English eyes fact faith Father Benwell favour feel French French Canadian George Eliot give hand heard heart honour human influence interest Jesuit labour Lady Loring land letter literary live look Lord Loring Lower Canada marriage ment mind Miss Eyrecourt Montreal moral mother nature ness never Ontario opinion Othello party passed Penrose person poem poet political present priest Province Quebec religion religious Romayne Romayne's seems sion smile soul speak speech spirit Stella sure tell things thought tical tion Toronto true truth ture turned Vange voice wife WILKIE COLLINS Winterfield woman words write young
Popular passages
Page 571 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 651 - O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet, That the sense aches at thee. — 'Would, thou had'st ne'er been born ! Des. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? Oth. Was this fair paper, this most goodly book. Made to write whore...
Page 513 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Page 77 - Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 188 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes That comes to all...
Page 650 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Page 266 - It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of our religion and philosophy, and frame lofty theories which only fit a world of extremes. Therefore let Art always remind us of them ; therefore let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things — men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of heaven falls on them.
Page 266 - Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and done the rough work of the world — those homes with their tin pans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs, and their clusters...
Page 650 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 280 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...