The Quarterly Review, Volum 19William 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, 1818 |
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... writing : Never was book so abominably misused by the printer ; never copy so negligently sur- veyed by one who undertook to look over the proof sheets with all exactness and care , namely , Dr. Triplet , well known for his ability ...
... writing : Never was book so abominably misused by the printer ; never copy so negligently sur- veyed by one who undertook to look over the proof sheets with all exactness and care , namely , Dr. Triplet , well known for his ability ...
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... Writing on the day when James was proclaimed , he says , I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness , gaming and all dissoluteness , and as it were total forgetfulness of God ( it being Sunday evening ) which this day ...
... Writing on the day when James was proclaimed , he says , I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness , gaming and all dissoluteness , and as it were total forgetfulness of God ( it being Sunday evening ) which this day ...
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... writer stamps upon your memory his meaning in all its force . Without such charms ' A Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions ' might appear to promise dry entertain- his Evelyn's Memoirs . 47.
... writer stamps upon your memory his meaning in all its force . Without such charms ' A Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions ' might appear to promise dry entertain- his Evelyn's Memoirs . 47.
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... writer in any way . It would seem from them , however , that we had been mis- informed in one point , namely , respecting Mr. Birkbeck's dis- satisfaction with his new situation ; -it was Mr. Flower only ( so , at least , we understand ...
... writer in any way . It would seem from them , however , that we had been mis- informed in one point , namely , respecting Mr. Birkbeck's dis- satisfaction with his new situation ; -it was Mr. Flower only ( so , at least , we understand ...
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... writers of Elizabeth's and the succeed- ing reign : Politic men , ' says one , begin apace already to with- hold their children from schools and universities ; any profession else better likes them , as knowing they may live well in ...
... writers of Elizabeth's and the succeed- ing reign : Politic men , ' says one , begin apace already to with- hold their children from schools and universities ; any profession else better likes them , as knowing they may live well in ...
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Side 70 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven! this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is...
Side 200 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Side 256 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Side 220 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Side 284 - Spanish America; or a Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain, in the Western Hemisphere...
Side 261 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Side 209 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Side 201 - Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal— a new birth...
Side 200 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in ; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season ; the mid forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead...
Side 127 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a smellingbottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.