The London Quarterly Review, Band 18Theodore Foster, 1818 |
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afterwards America appears army battalion bishop bishop of Landaff body Brazil called Captain Caripe cataract character church coast Colonel Wilks command corps Cumana Daines Barrington death Dutch effect England English European expedition father favour feelings Fezzan former give Greenland habits Haydn honour human Humboldt hundred Hyder India Indians inhabitants interest Isidro island Jesuits king La Guayra labour land less Lopez de Vega Lord Lord Holland Mahratta manner means ment mind mountains Mozart murder Mysore native nature never night object observed occasion officers opinion parish party passage persons poem poet poor laws Portugal Portuguese possession present principle readers reform remarkable respect river says sepoys Seringapatam Silla Spanish species spirit Spitzbergen Strait supposed tain Thorgill thousand tion Tippoo troops Tuckey vessels voyage whole workhouses XVIII Zaire
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Seite 383 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Seite 459 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 383 - He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear ; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed downstairs.
Seite 59 - The defeat of many Baillies and Braithwaites will not destroy them. I can ruin their resources by land, but I cannot dry up the sea ; and I must be first weary of a war in which I can gain nothing by fighting.
Seite 330 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Seite 382 - How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
Seite 458 - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry, and that fine sense of their undefinable relation to mental emotion, which is its essence and vivifying Soul, and which...
Seite 234 - I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a syllable on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it...
Seite 314 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Seite 382 - Beautiful! -Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.