The Quarterly Review, Volume 218William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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... British Preference in Canada 9. The Training of a Queen . 10. Disraeli : the First Two Phases 11. The Majority Report of the Divorce Commission 12. The Strategy of the Balkan War 13. The Crisis in the Near East 299 323 346 . 370 . 390 ...
... British Preference in Canada 9. The Training of a Queen . 10. Disraeli : the First Two Phases 11. The Majority Report of the Divorce Commission 12. The Strategy of the Balkan War 13. The Crisis in the Near East 299 323 346 . 370 . 390 ...
Pagina 2
... British neglect - the inadequacy of the existing trans- lations of the poet into our tongue . Italian is not a diffi- cult language to acquire so far as ordinary prose , or even narrative verse , is concerned ; but the idiomatic forms ...
... British neglect - the inadequacy of the existing trans- lations of the poet into our tongue . Italian is not a diffi- cult language to acquire so far as ordinary prose , or even narrative verse , is concerned ; but the idiomatic forms ...
Pagina 36
... British America . Increase Mather lived for twenty - two years more , Cotton Mather for twenty - seven ; throughout the time left them they were singularly and beautifully sym- pathetic . Though their political influence was at an end ...
... British America . Increase Mather lived for twenty - two years more , Cotton Mather for twenty - seven ; throughout the time left them they were singularly and beautifully sym- pathetic . Though their political influence was at an end ...
Pagina 51
... British Museum , which must have been made by Swift with an idea of its ultimate publication , there is evidence that every letter from his English friends which did not trench dangerously on the politics of the day was kept by him with ...
... British Museum , which must have been made by Swift with an idea of its ultimate publication , there is evidence that every letter from his English friends which did not trench dangerously on the politics of the day was kept by him with ...
Pagina 53
... British Museum , and another in the Forster Library at South Kensington . Mr John Murray is the happy possessor of a long and interesting series of Swift's autograph letters to Archdeacon Walls and others , which he has freely placed at ...
... British Museum , and another in the Forster Library at South Kensington . Mr John Murray is the happy possessor of a long and interesting series of Swift's autograph letters to Archdeacon Walls and others , which he has freely placed at ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 52 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 10 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Pagina 446 - As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight line drawn across the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles.
Pagina 446 - Convention, the object of which is to regulate the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters, shall apply to the subjects of the High Contracting Parties.
Pagina 64 - God send you through your law-suit, and your reference. And remember that riches are nine parts in ten of all that is good in life, and health is the tenth ; drinking coffee comes long after, and yet it is the eleventh ; but without the two former you cannot drink it right...
Pagina 519 - Versailles • gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers.
Pagina 11 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost. A vivid conception of the scene and its feelings came over me, and I was moved to tears. From this moment my burden grew lighter. The oppression of the thought that all feeling was dead within me, was gone.
Pagina 11 - I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living when life must be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year.
Pagina 106 - I faced old James and all his court the other day at St. Cloud. Vive Guillaume ! You never saw such a strange figure as the old bully is, [James II.] lean, worn, and rivelled, not unlike Neale, the projector. The queen looks very melancholy, but otherwise well enough : their equipages are all very ragged and contemptible.
Pagina 376 - Pray now, buy some : I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders