The Quarterly Review, Band 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 |
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... object by awakening the land - holders to a sense of their own and their country's interests . He produced a volume upon the subject ; Charles II . , who loved the navy , and like his brother would have made a better admiral than a king ...
... object by awakening the land - holders to a sense of their own and their country's interests . He produced a volume upon the subject ; Charles II . , who loved the navy , and like his brother would have made a better admiral than a king ...
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... object of unwearied curiosity and interest ; he was continually adding to his store of facts and observations in this his favourite pursuit ; and thinking with Erasmus , that ut homines , ita libros , indies seipsis meliores fieri ...
... object of unwearied curiosity and interest ; he was continually adding to his store of facts and observations in this his favourite pursuit ; and thinking with Erasmus , that ut homines , ita libros , indies seipsis meliores fieri ...
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... pair the mutilated bust of La Fayette , in their Capitol , which now , says , ' stands an object of horror and derision , ' the horrific feel- he ing , we suppose , arises from the loss of ing , Birkbeck's Notes on America . 57.
... pair the mutilated bust of La Fayette , in their Capitol , which now , says , ' stands an object of horror and derision , ' the horrific feel- he ing , we suppose , arises from the loss of ing , Birkbeck's Notes on America . 57.
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... object of his at- tention ; and he is anxious that his information on this important subject should produce no false impressions on the minds of his countrymen . The following extracts will shew what his views are . ' From what I have ...
... object of his at- tention ; and he is anxious that his information on this important subject should produce no false impressions on the minds of his countrymen . The following extracts will shew what his views are . ' From what I have ...
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... object with a munifi- cence of which no age or country has ever yet seen an example , I could wish , ' says King Edward , that when time shall serve , the superfluous and tedious statutes were brought into one sum together , and made ...
... object with a munifi- cence of which no age or country has ever yet seen an example , I could wish , ' says King Edward , that when time shall serve , the superfluous and tedious statutes were brought into one sum together , and made ...
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Seite 70 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven! this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is...
Seite 200 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Seite 256 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Seite 220 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Seite 284 - Spanish America; or a Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain, in the Western Hemisphere...
Seite 261 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Seite 209 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Seite 201 - Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal— a new birth...
Seite 200 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in ; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season ; the mid forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead...
Seite 127 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a smellingbottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.