The Quarterly Review, Volume 219William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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Pagina 20
... taken Badajoz , certainly not in time to make it defensible before Beresford could come up . And , once in French keeping , Badajoz was a millstone round Welling- ton's neck which hindered all his movements for over a year . The ...
... taken Badajoz , certainly not in time to make it defensible before Beresford could come up . And , once in French keeping , Badajoz was a millstone round Welling- ton's neck which hindered all his movements for over a year . The ...
Pagina 36
... taken an unconscionable time in dying , was called by one of the gossips who had attended her wake'as nice a woman as ever threw a tub of clothes on the hill , ' and complimented for having ' battled it out well , ' Norry the Boat ...
... taken an unconscionable time in dying , was called by one of the gossips who had attended her wake'as nice a woman as ever threw a tub of clothes on the hill , ' and complimented for having ' battled it out well , ' Norry the Boat ...
Pagina 39
... taken up his position at a convenient spot on the course , thus describes his mode of encouraging the mare : " Skelp her , ye big brute ! ' says I. ' What good's in ye that ye aren't able to skelp her ? ' Well , Mr Flurry , and ...
... taken up his position at a convenient spot on the course , thus describes his mode of encouraging the mare : " Skelp her , ye big brute ! ' says I. ' What good's in ye that ye aren't able to skelp her ? ' Well , Mr Flurry , and ...
Pagina 49
... taken the form of a study of the life and writings of the author . M. Adam's biography is well described as a ' historic study . ' It is not a life for the casual seeker for informa- tion , nor has it any special claims to literary ...
... taken the form of a study of the life and writings of the author . M. Adam's biography is well described as a ' historic study . ' It is not a life for the casual seeker for informa- tion , nor has it any special claims to literary ...
Pagina 50
... taken shortly before Descartes went to Sweden and is now in the collection at the Louvre . It has been reproduced in M. Adam's ' Life ' by Achille Jacquet , who also reproduces another portrait , hitherto unknown , the authenticity of ...
... taken shortly before Descartes went to Sweden and is now in the collection at the Louvre . It has been reproduced in M. Adam's ' Life ' by Achille Jacquet , who also reproduces another portrait , hitherto unknown , the authenticity of ...
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Pagina 173 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Pagina 171 - Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
Pagina 177 - He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Pagina 175 - Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim. My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple.
Pagina 242 - ... flowers, which in that heavenly air Bloom the year long ! Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams : Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams, A throe of the heart, Whose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound, No dying cadence nor long sigh can sound, For all our art. Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of men We pour our dark nocturnal secret ; and then, As night is withdrawn From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May, Dream, while the innumerable...
Pagina 203 - Tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet; quia fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.
Pagina 259 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Pagina 141 - The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us !" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Pagina 177 - Deliverance ? Where is this deliverance to be found ? Our Master Himself has joyfully taken upon Him the bonds of creation ; He is bound with us all for ever.
Pagina 483 - Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India during the year 1870-71 (ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 13th June 1872).