Hte London Quarterly Review (English, French, Paperback)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1874 edition. Extrait: ...presume to speak of their country except in terms of unqualified praise. If I have extenuated nothing, I have most certainly not set down aught in malice, and, so far from depreciating America, have no hesitation in saying that, were I not an Englishman, I should be proud to be an American citizen." The Paradise of Martyrs: a Faith Rhyme. Part First. In Five Books. By Thomas Cooper, Author of "The Purgatory of Suicides: a Prison Rhyme," &c., &c., &c. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1873. If this book had no intrinsic merits, it would yet find readers. Those acquainted with the former works and the remarkable career of Thomas Cooper would be certainly attracted to a perusal of it. And such could hardly read without emotion the following stanza: --"Almighty and All-glorious Lord of all Eternal Source of life, and Fonnt of light A poor, dark wanderer, at Thy feet I fall--Forgiving Father, at Thy feet Thy bright Pervading Presence in the darksome night Of wandering watched me. Thou wert ever near, Although I owned Thee not, and from Thy sight Afar I fled, soul-palsied with the fear That there was nought beyond the tomb: that dread so drear." The book has merits, of which this stanza is an indication, while its faults are few and superficial. Now and then the rhythm is broken, the numbers faulty, and a few quaint, obsolete terms are used, suggesting the need, almost, of a glossary. But the volume is rich in sentiment and full of food for thoughtful minds. In the former part of these five books, respectively, Mr. Cooper is found "pondering the change of earthly things," and then in a dream, or on the wing of imagination, he enters the "Paradise of Martyrs," and sees martyrs of all past ages...