The Quarterly Review, Volume 103William 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, 1858 |
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Pagina 17
... once heaved off from the cliffs a mass of more than a million tons of chalk , which rolled down upon the beach - the dislodged stuff covering a space of more than fifteen acres , which may still be seen by the traveller along the South ...
... once heaved off from the cliffs a mass of more than a million tons of chalk , which rolled down upon the beach - the dislodged stuff covering a space of more than fifteen acres , which may still be seen by the traveller along the South ...
Pagina 37
... once let loose on a great stream , with its endless tributaries , we can sail almost where we please . There is great difficulty in ascertaining the details of that change which substituted baronage by writ for baronage by tenure , and ...
... once let loose on a great stream , with its endless tributaries , we can sail almost where we please . There is great difficulty in ascertaining the details of that change which substituted baronage by writ for baronage by tenure , and ...
Pagina 45
... once a good pretext and a good opportunity for destroying each other . The battles were great duels between the nobles and gentry of each faction . They spared the common people on principle , and massacred each other without mercy . It ...
... once a good pretext and a good opportunity for destroying each other . The battles were great duels between the nobles and gentry of each faction . They spared the common people on principle , and massacred each other without mercy . It ...
Pagina 52
... once made to derive the Cavendishes from a Norman family called Gernon , but no genealogist now believes the story . The founder of the house was Wolsey's well - known servant , and his remotest an- cestor was a successful lawyer . From ...
... once made to derive the Cavendishes from a Norman family called Gernon , but no genealogist now believes the story . The founder of the house was Wolsey's well - known servant , and his remotest an- cestor was a successful lawyer . From ...
Pagina 57
... once , ' Why should the Fountain of Honour be dry , if the channel of desert be running ? ' But James did not confine himself to re- warding desert , but prostituted his royal functions in so shameful a manner , that a strict line must ...
... once , ' Why should the Fountain of Honour be dry , if the channel of desert be running ? ' But James did not confine himself to re- warding desert , but prostituted his royal functions in so shameful a manner , that a strict line must ...
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Pagina 299 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Pagina 196 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Pagina 318 - ... and stiff, and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to her daughter: "This is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life.
Pagina 298 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, "Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Pagina 207 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Pagina 398 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Pagina 211 - Denounce no doom on the delinquent ? None. He lives, and o'er his brimming beaker boasts (As if barbarity were high desert...
Pagina 301 - Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read 'The Whole Duty of Man,' from a great part of which I could derive no instruction.
Pagina 97 - I trust, by the mercy of God, I shall be sure in port in a very few glasses, and fast moored in a most blessed riding; for my good friend Jolter hath overhauled the journal of my sins, and, by the observation he hath taken of the state of my soul, I hope I shall happily conclude my voyage, and be brought up in the latitude of heaven.
Pagina 56 - IN brave poursuitt of honorable deed, There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the noble seed, Which unto things of valorous pretence Seemes to be borne by native influence ; As feates of armes ; and love to entertaine : But chiefly skill to ride seemes a science Proper to gentle blood : some others faine To menage steeds, as did this vaunter ; but in vaine.