The Quarterly Review, Volume 92William 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, 1853 |
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... already in some measure relieved myself of a burden which has long been weighing upon me . I will explain how this is . Some eighteen months since a gentleman who has given good evidence of his earnest wish to better and raise the ...
... already in some measure relieved myself of a burden which has long been weighing upon me . I will explain how this is . Some eighteen months since a gentleman who has given good evidence of his earnest wish to better and raise the ...
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... already under his feet , in his fac- tory , a mine of untold usefulness and happiness to others and to himself -difficult enough to open , no doubt , and requiring perhaps a good deal of apparently profitless digging at first , but ...
... already under his feet , in his fac- tory , a mine of untold usefulness and happiness to others and to himself -difficult enough to open , no doubt , and requiring perhaps a good deal of apparently profitless digging at first , but ...
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... already ensnared one , and he is now at the age of forty - seven violently affected with the tender passion . Being myself a veteran in the service , I take great pleasure in administering to his relief , and I feel no small pride in ...
... already ensnared one , and he is now at the age of forty - seven violently affected with the tender passion . Being myself a veteran in the service , I take great pleasure in administering to his relief , and I feel no small pride in ...
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... already amounting to twenty - five beyond its due proportion ; and the South imagines that , with all this preponderance in representation , the other parts of the Union enjoy a more perfect protection of their interests than her own ...
... already amounting to twenty - five beyond its due proportion ; and the South imagines that , with all this preponderance in representation , the other parts of the Union enjoy a more perfect protection of their interests than her own ...
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... already covers more space than we had designed -but we feel that it would be very imperfect if we omitted some account of his personal habits , and some explanation how he ac- complished so much ; it was , at least , not by a slovenly ...
... already covers more space than we had designed -but we feel that it would be very imperfect if we omitted some account of his personal habits , and some explanation how he ac- complished so much ; it was , at least , not by a slovenly ...
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Página 188 - The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Página 328 - With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Página 57 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Página 202 - ... ordinary; if you expected to see an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty ! but her manners are simple, ardent, impressive. In every motion, her most innocent soul outbeams so brightly, that who saw would say, Guilt was a thing impossible in her. Her information various. Her eye watchful in minutest observation of nature; and her taste, a perfect electrometer.
Página 231 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more...
Página 118 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Página 160 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Página 231 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Página 200 - There are in the piece those profound touches of the human heart which I find three or four times in " The Robbers " of Schiller, and often in Shakespeare, but in Wordsworth there are no inequalities.
Página 545 - The history of a battle is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events, of which the great result is the battle won or lost; but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.