The Quarterly Review, Volum 96John Murray, 1855 |
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Addison Agamemnon allied armies annuity appeared artillery atomic atomic theory attack Balaklava batteries beautiful believe body brain Brigade British cause cavalry character chemical chimney Church coal colour command Corsica Crimea Dalton discovery doctrine doubt effect enemy England English fact feeling feet fire French friendly societies give Government ground guns hand heart heat horses King labours less light London Lord Lord Aberdeen Lord John Russell Lord Raglan Madame Madame de Maintenon Madame de Montespan matter means ment mind minister nature nerve nervous never object officers organ persons portion position present principle proportions redoubts regiments remarkable result Russian scarcely Sebastopol sensation sickness side smoke soon Star Fort Steele Tatler tion town treaty of Adrianople trees troops truth weight whilst whole XCVI Zouaves
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Side 536 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Side 529 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Side 130 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Side 521 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck...
Side 520 - I cannot indeed express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither; the boys and girls strive who shall come first when they think it is I that am knocking at the door; and that child which loses the race to me runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Side 480 - Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
Side 489 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Side 145 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Side 510 - In speculation, he was a man of piety and honour; in practice, he was much of the rake and a little of the swindler. He was, however, so good-natured that it was not easy to be seriously angry with him, and that even rigid moralists felt more inclined to pity than to blame him, when he diced himself into a spunging-house or drank himself into a fever. Addison regarded Steele with kindness not unmingled with scorn...
Side 521 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, " that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true;" for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.