The Quarterly Review, Volume 54John Murray, 1835 |
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Pagina 3
... turning his materials to a good account , by anticipating and forestalling the Captain's own ponderous nar- rative of the voyage . We notice Huish's book chiefly because we certainly felt , as we are told very many brother officers of ...
... turning his materials to a good account , by anticipating and forestalling the Captain's own ponderous nar- rative of the voyage . We notice Huish's book chiefly because we certainly felt , as we are told very many brother officers of ...
Pagina 9
... turn the opening to leeward when the wind blows . Being formed entirely of blocks of snow , the completion of the fabric is but the work of a few hours . Our voyagers soon discovered , or imagined they discovered , ( for the parties ...
... turn the opening to leeward when the wind blows . Being formed entirely of blocks of snow , the completion of the fabric is but the work of a few hours . Our voyagers soon discovered , or imagined they discovered , ( for the parties ...
Pagina 13
... turn - again . " We have known what it is for the wanderer in these solitudes to alight upon such traces of friends and of home , and can almost envy him the imagined happiness ; while we shall rejoice to hear that he has done that in ...
... turn - again . " We have known what it is for the wanderer in these solitudes to alight upon such traces of friends and of home , and can almost envy him the imagined happiness ; while we shall rejoice to hear that he has done that in ...
Pagina 39
make good her passage through Behring's Strait ? If , on the re- turn of Back , he shall have established the truth of Commander Ross's conjecture as to the uninterrupted continuation of the western and , northern coast of America , and ...
make good her passage through Behring's Strait ? If , on the re- turn of Back , he shall have established the truth of Commander Ross's conjecture as to the uninterrupted continuation of the western and , northern coast of America , and ...
Pagina 57
... turn round ; even Webster would hesitate , as if bothered by the row ; and , in short , the whole thing was more irregular , and un- business - like , than any one could have imagined .'- pp . 121-122 . Our final extract shall be the ...
... turn round ; even Webster would hesitate , as if bothered by the row ; and , in short , the whole thing was more irregular , and un- business - like , than any one could have imagined .'- pp . 121-122 . Our final extract shall be the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 48 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pagina 292 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Pagina 336 - Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although. it be not shined upon.
Pagina 62 - ... was there no pleasure in being a poor man? or can those neat black clothes which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that overworn...
Pagina 336 - And glories of my King. When I shall voyce aloud, how good He is, how great should be, Inlarged winds, that curie the flood, Know no such liberty.
Pagina 180 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Pagina 68 - Twas but in a sort I blamed thee : None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss.
Pagina 180 - Bound to thy service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.
Pagina 59 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios; must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces? Must knowledge come to me. if it come at all. by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there, wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face — the "sweet assurance of a look"?
Pagina 47 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.