The Quarterly Review, Band 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... believe , have long ere this been consigned to the common grave of departed works , a bookseller's garret ; nor should we now have disturbed their ashes , had not recent events added a considerable degree or interest as well as ...
... believe , have long ere this been consigned to the common grave of departed works , a bookseller's garret ; nor should we now have disturbed their ashes , had not recent events added a considerable degree or interest as well as ...
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... believe that the tyranny arises out of the character of the government , and is not solely dependent on that of the individual monarch . From the scenes which occurred in 1803 , and from more recent events , we have very little doubt ...
... believe that the tyranny arises out of the character of the government , and is not solely dependent on that of the individual monarch . From the scenes which occurred in 1803 , and from more recent events , we have very little doubt ...
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... believe that this gentleman has yet enriched himself by a forced breed of pearls . The formation of the real pearl is still , we suspect , a profound mystery , and the wisest of us must be content , after all , to say , with Hussan ...
... believe that this gentleman has yet enriched himself by a forced breed of pearls . The formation of the real pearl is still , we suspect , a profound mystery , and the wisest of us must be content , after all , to say , with Hussan ...
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... believe , however , that this mis- take has been corrected , and that religion and education are again in a flourishing state . Missionaries too have , since that period , been sent to the island , from whom a people so tractable as the ...
... believe , however , that this mis- take has been corrected , and that religion and education are again in a flourishing state . Missionaries too have , since that period , been sent to the island , from whom a people so tractable as the ...
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... believe , and all that they do not believe ; in short , he has most fully shewn that the allegations of the Bishop of London formed a very small part of the motives which induced him to write his pamphlet . Mr. Belsham begins by saying ...
... believe , and all that they do not believe ; in short , he has most fully shewn that the allegations of the Bishop of London formed a very small part of the motives which induced him to write his pamphlet . Mr. Belsham begins by saying ...
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Seite 201 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Seite 210 - When soft! — the dusky trees between, And down the path through the open green, Where is no living thing to be seen ; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...
Seite 208 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Seite 433 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it ; Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thyself.
Seite 288 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Seite 208 - Poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, — confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily into
Seite 394 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Seite 478 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Seite 231 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....