The Quarterly Review, Volume 48William 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, 1832 - English literature |
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... Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck , and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea ; with a Detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life ; from the years 1733 to 1749. Edited by Miss Jane ...
... Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck , and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea ; with a Detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life ; from the years 1733 to 1749. Edited by Miss Jane ...
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... Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck , and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea ; with a Detail of many extraordinary and highly_inte- resting Events in his Life ; from the years 1733 to 1749. Edited by Miss Jane ...
... Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck , and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea ; with a Detail of many extraordinary and highly_inte- resting Events in his Life ; from the years 1733 to 1749. Edited by Miss Jane ...
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Page 284 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 286 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
Page 234 - It is said that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
Page 196 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 67 - That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Page 573 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 95 - Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve ! Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Page 46 - ... as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle.
Page 122 - Eternal God ! on what are thine enemies intent ! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of Heaven must not penetrate!" — he asked, "Did I say penetrate, sir, when I preached it?