The Quarterly Review, Volume 37William 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, 1828 - English literature |
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... ment of death . Robberies were constantly committed . They burnt down the prison at a time when twenty criminals were in it loaded with irons , some of whom perished in the flames . They were compelled to rebuild it ; and then set it on ...
... ment of death . Robberies were constantly committed . They burnt down the prison at a time when twenty criminals were in it loaded with irons , some of whom perished in the flames . They were compelled to rebuild it ; and then set it on ...
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... ment made by Governor Macquarie , of educating the children of these people , but we believe it has failed ; and the prevailing opi- nion among the settlers is , that they are a race of men utterly inca- pable of being civilized . Not ...
... ment made by Governor Macquarie , of educating the children of these people , but we believe it has failed ; and the prevailing opi- nion among the settlers is , that they are a race of men utterly inca- pable of being civilized . Not ...
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... ment was bestowed by Avidius Cassius , the rebellious viceroy of Marcus Aurelius , in Syria , and of course lasted but for a few months . But the calm terms in which he himself speaks of his official occupations are scarcely to be ...
... ment was bestowed by Avidius Cassius , the rebellious viceroy of Marcus Aurelius , in Syria , and of course lasted but for a few months . But the calm terms in which he himself speaks of his official occupations are scarcely to be ...
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... ment , ' and who was obviously so much delighted with the dignity when he did obtain it , had , we may fairly suppose , thrown away not a few oily paragraphs in his time . We had almost forgotten another objection , which , indeed , the ...
... ment , ' and who was obviously so much delighted with the dignity when he did obtain it , had , we may fairly suppose , thrown away not a few oily paragraphs in his time . We had almost forgotten another objection , which , indeed , the ...
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... ment which is allowed by Mr. Butler himself still to speak the sense of his church , we will give our readers a few of its practi- cal applications of scripture . The gospels for the day are to be made profitable to the edification of ...
... ment which is allowed by Mr. Butler himself still to speak the sense of his church , we will give our readers a few of its practi- cal applications of scripture . The gospels for the day are to be made profitable to the edification of ...
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Page 347 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 25 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 72 - Warbler ! that love-prompted strain, ('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain : Yet mightst thou seem, proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH.
Page 541 - ... would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like, or greater miseries upon...
Page 287 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 357 - ... my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in : but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect. We can, my dear Coll, have no little jealousies. We have only •one great object in view, that of annihilating our enemies, and getting a glorious peace for our country. No man has more confidence in another than I have in you ; and no man will...
Page 400 - I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly ; ' 'Twas one of my feats.' " ' Who shot the arrow? ' ' The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man), Or Southey or Barrow.
Page 98 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
Page 559 - RESEARCHES INTO THE CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of the more prevalent DISEASES of INDIA, and of WARM CLIMATES generally.
Page 402 - I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even Imagination, passion and Invention, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the Lower Empire.