The Quarterly Review, Volume 92John Murray, 1853 |
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... course when they in their turn become masters of families there will be the same want of much intercourse as with our present men ; but when you once know a man thoroughly , and he you , the mere moving about in the same work with a ...
... course when they in their turn become masters of families there will be the same want of much intercourse as with our present men ; but when you once know a man thoroughly , and he you , the mere moving about in the same work with a ...
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... course they must do when on night - work . ' Having adopted this system of recreation to sweeten toil , mixing with it other ingredients to make it promote yet higher purposes , Mr. Wilson's next movement was to have a ' day of it ...
... course they must do when on night - work . ' Having adopted this system of recreation to sweeten toil , mixing with it other ingredients to make it promote yet higher purposes , Mr. Wilson's next movement was to have a ' day of it ...
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... course , by the mere prospect of goodly returns for capital invested , they found cause to acknowledge that there were other things worthy of their care . The Directors began by nominating a Committee for full inquiry , and having ...
... course , by the mere prospect of goodly returns for capital invested , they found cause to acknowledge that there were other things worthy of their care . The Directors began by nominating a Committee for full inquiry , and having ...
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... course in them ; long extracts from addresses and reports which are printed in his Miscellaneous Writings , and nearly all his poetry should have been omitted ; and we might well have been spared the perpetually recurring accounts of ...
... course in them ; long extracts from addresses and reports which are printed in his Miscellaneous Writings , and nearly all his poetry should have been omitted ; and we might well have been spared the perpetually recurring accounts of ...
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... course opening - he noticed that the girls kept even pace with the boys in their com- mon studies , and went beyond them in quickness of perception and delicacy of feeling . If the sexes become unequal intellectu- ally in after life ...
... course opening - he noticed that the girls kept even pace with the boys in their com- mon studies , and went beyond them in quickness of perception and delicacy of feeling . If the sexes become unequal intellectu- ally in after life ...
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aerolites Alfoxden appears Apsley House army Austrian authority battle beauty Beechey Island boys called Cape Walker Castle Combe character Charles Church Coleridge command constitution Count Montalembert Countess of Desmond course Court Danube Desmond Disraeli doubt Duke duty Earl Earl of Desmond earth Emperor England English exist fact factory favour feeling force France French friends Görgei Government hair hand honour House Hungarian Hungary Imperial India justice King Kossuth labour Lady less letter Lord Magyar matter Maurel ment meteoric stones meteors military mind Montalembert Museum native nature navy never object observation officers opinion Parliament party period poet present Prince Prince Windischgrätz principle question readers remarkable Royal Royal navy seems Shipping Interest spirit stones success supposed Theiss thought tion troops truth Ultramontanism Waitzen Wellington Wellington Channel whole Wordsworth XCII
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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 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 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 128 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 187 - I was called upon, among other scholars, to write verses upon the completion of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in 1585 by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired — far more than they deserved, for they were but a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a little in his style.
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.
Página 48 - ... rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis: at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
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 475 - Call on a business man at business times only, and on business ; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
Página 517 - Tis enough to make one thoughtful ; but no matter : my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will outmanoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be ; and secondly, because if what I hear of their system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the battle was begun. I, at least, will not be frightened beforehand.