Quarterly Review, Volume 103John Murray, 1858 |
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Pagina 17
blast , fired by galvanic electricity at several points instantane- ously , at 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 ...
blast , fired by galvanic electricity at several points instantane- ously , at 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 ...
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 ...
Pagina 65
... once possessing such an advantage , have wickedly and insolently rejected it , that the prejudice of an old nobility is a thing that cannot be made . It may be improved , it may be corrected , it may be replenished ; men may be taken ...
... once possessing such an advantage , have wickedly and insolently rejected it , that the prejudice of an old nobility is a thing that cannot be made . It may be improved , it may be corrected , it may be replenished ; men may be taken ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 69 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
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 298 - 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 400 - 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 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 107 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Pagina 133 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on.
Pagina 281 - I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.