The Quarterly Review, Volum 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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... Natural History , with the Manners and Customs of its various Inhabitants , & c . By Captain Robert Perceval , of his Majesty's 18th or Royal Irish Regiment . 4to . London . 2. A Description of Ceylon , containing an Account of the ...
... Natural History , with the Manners and Customs of its various Inhabitants , & c . By Captain Robert Perceval , of his Majesty's 18th or Royal Irish Regiment . 4to . London . 2. A Description of Ceylon , containing an Account of the ...
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... nature seems here to have exerted all her powers to satisfy abundantly the wants of a savage life , she has at the same time poured forth a richness of scenery , capable of affording ex . quisite delight to the most cultivated mind ...
... nature seems here to have exerted all her powers to satisfy abundantly the wants of a savage life , she has at the same time poured forth a richness of scenery , capable of affording ex . quisite delight to the most cultivated mind ...
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... nature of the disease . The town of Candy , he says , is situate on a small plain , surrounded on every side by high mountains , al- most entirely covered with trees , brushwood , and jungle ; the cli- mate he describes as humid , and ...
... nature of the disease . The town of Candy , he says , is situate on a small plain , surrounded on every side by high mountains , al- most entirely covered with trees , brushwood , and jungle ; the cli- mate he describes as humid , and ...
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... nature and extent of the presents for the sovereign - in the custom of entertaining all ambassadors at free cost - and in their attempts to starve them into complaisance with their degrading demands - in all which the Singhalese are so ...
... nature and extent of the presents for the sovereign - in the custom of entertaining all ambassadors at free cost - and in their attempts to starve them into complaisance with their degrading demands - in all which the Singhalese are so ...
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... nature and rural innocence rarely to be seen . In their national character they are quiet , peaceable , harmless , contented , and strongly marked by habitual taciturnity . They are all nominally chris- tians , professing the religion ...
... nature and rural innocence rarely to be seen . In their national character they are quiet , peaceable , harmless , contented , and strongly marked by habitual taciturnity . They are all nominally chris- tians , professing the religion ...
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Adams admirable Alfieri appears army beautiful beggars British Buonaparte called Callicrates Candians Caubul Ceylon character chief Christian church Cinyras clan Columbo common considered degree duty effects Elgin Marbles Elphinstone Emperor England English Europe evidence expression fact favour feelings France Fraser Fraserdale French friends Greek hands head highland honour horses Humboldt Ictinus inhabitants interest island jacobin king Knight labour lady language letter London Lord Elgin Lord Lovat lordship Lovat Mac Donald manner means Melancthon ment metopes mind Moesogothic Mogadore mountains Myrrha Napoleon nature never object observed opinion original Paris Parthenon pediment perhaps Persia person Phidias Plutarch Pradt present principles racter readers recollect respect royal Russia says Scotland seems shew supposed surprized taste Theseus thing tion Tombuctoo traveller trees tribes truth Tweddell Tweddell's unitarians vols whole words
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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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....