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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... seen the fatal stroke which severed from its shoulders the wisest head in England - to such exorbitancy were things arrived : ' he now therefore determined to absent himself from a state of things which gave umbrage ' ( fearful ...
... seen the fatal stroke which severed from its shoulders the wisest head in England - to such exorbitancy were things arrived : ' he now therefore determined to absent himself from a state of things which gave umbrage ' ( fearful ...
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... seen wild - ducks come in flocks to a lady's call , and the water - hen hurry to the same voice with as much alacrity as the barn - door fowl . " * In his progress through Italy Evelyn's attention , according to the fashion of his age ...
... seen wild - ducks come in flocks to a lady's call , and the water - hen hurry to the same voice with as much alacrity as the barn - door fowl . " * In his progress through Italy Evelyn's attention , according to the fashion of his age ...
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... seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the slightest reference to the glorious scenery by which they are surrounded ; nor were they in his estimation more interesting for standing ...
... seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the slightest reference to the glorious scenery by which they are surrounded ; nor were they in his estimation more interesting for standing ...
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... seen in the rest of the civil world after Italy , France , Flanders , and the Low Country . ' The persons who pronounced this opinion must have had little curiosity with their experience , or little experience with their curiosity . The ...
... seen in the rest of the civil world after Italy , France , Flanders , and the Low Country . ' The persons who pronounced this opinion must have had little curiosity with their experience , or little experience with their curiosity . The ...
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... seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its colour at Geneva . Adultery was then punished ...
... seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its colour at Geneva . Adultery was then punished ...
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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.