The Quarterly Review, Volume 18John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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Page 56
... made repeated attempts to seize it by stratagem , or starve it into surrender ,
this officer , never once casting off his clothes at the uncertain periods of repose ,
not only provided the means of internal defence , but raised a little corps of
cavalry ...
... made repeated attempts to seize it by stratagem , or starve it into surrender ,
this officer , never once casting off his clothes at the uncertain periods of repose ,
not only provided the means of internal defence , but raised a little corps of
cavalry ...
Page 62
... tendency of the means . If he was cruel and unfeeling , it was for the promotion
of his objects , and never for the gratification of anger or revenge . If he was ever
liberal , it was because liberality exalted his character and augmented his power
...
... tendency of the means . If he was cruel and unfeeling , it was for the promotion
of his objects , and never for the gratification of anger or revenge . If he was ever
liberal , it was because liberality exalted his character and augmented his power
...
Page 63
No contempt for unmanly submission ever aggravated the treatment of the abject
and the mean . Every thing was weighed in the balance of utility , and no grain of
human feeling , no breath of virtue or of vice , was permitted to incline the beam ...
No contempt for unmanly submission ever aggravated the treatment of the abject
and the mean . Every thing was weighed in the balance of utility , and no grain of
human feeling , no breath of virtue or of vice , was permitted to incline the beam ...
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the prisom , afterjade of this public opportunity of acknowledging the obligation ,
and will omit no means within his power of testifying his gratitude to General
Wangenheim . ” ' - vol . ii . pp . 442 , 443 . The capture of the almost impregnable
fort ...
the prisom , afterjade of this public opportunity of acknowledging the obligation ,
and will omit no means within his power of testifying his gratitude to General
Wangenheim . ” ' - vol . ii . pp . 442 , 443 . The capture of the almost impregnable
fort ...
Page 76
In composing music , he sought rather his own gratification than the means of
acquiring celebrity . ' The knowledge of counterpoint and the laws of harmony
was . the reward of intense labour ; but Haydn was obliged to resort to artifice for
that ...
In composing music , he sought rather his own gratification than the means of
acquiring celebrity . ' The knowledge of counterpoint and the laws of harmony
was . the reward of intense labour ; but Haydn was obliged to resort to artifice for
that ...
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Page 379 - 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.
Page 192 - That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.
Page 378 - His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. 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.
Page 455 - 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.
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Page 459 - Shakespear was no moralist at all : in another, he was the greatest of all moralists. He was a moralist in the same sense in which nature is one. He taught what he had learnt from her. He shewed the greatest knowledge of humanity with the greatest fellow-feeling for it.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 18 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1818 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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