The Quarterly Review, Volumen54John Murray, 1835 |
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... effect of re- ducing the whole party to a more indifferent state of health than had hitherto been experienced . Two of the seamen were far gone in the scurvy : - - ' We were indeed all very weary of this miserable home . . . Even the ...
... effect of re- ducing the whole party to a more indifferent state of health than had hitherto been experienced . Two of the seamen were far gone in the scurvy : - - ' We were indeed all very weary of this miserable home . . . Even the ...
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... effect is immediately destroyed by some levity of expression , some coarse joke , or some gross vulgar absurdity , as that , for instance , of re- commending all Arctic voyagers hereafter to cram their stomachs , as the Esquimaux do ...
... effect is immediately destroyed by some levity of expression , some coarse joke , or some gross vulgar absurdity , as that , for instance , of re- commending all Arctic voyagers hereafter to cram their stomachs , as the Esquimaux do ...
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... effect on the magnet ? -Yes , even brass . - The buttons of your coat ? -The buttons of my coat produced an effect on the magnet . That the north pole of the needle would point to them ? -Yes .'- Evid . p . 12 . The idea of going into ...
... effect on the magnet ? -Yes , even brass . - The buttons of your coat ? -The buttons of my coat produced an effect on the magnet . That the north pole of the needle would point to them ? -Yes .'- Evid . p . 12 . The idea of going into ...
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... effect . She is pompous , to prove that she can be dignified ; and then she interposes trivialities , in order to appear natural . She wishes to show that she can play Lady Macbeth and Nell in the same volume ; but it seems to us that ...
... effect . She is pompous , to prove that she can be dignified ; and then she interposes trivialities , in order to appear natural . She wishes to show that she can play Lady Macbeth and Nell in the same volume ; but it seems to us that ...
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... effect , a straining after points in talking , and a lamp and orange - peel twist in every action . How odious it is to me ! Abso- lute and unmitigated vulgarity I can put up with , and welcome ; but good Heaven defend me from the ...
... effect , a straining after points in talking , and a lamp and orange - peel twist in every action . How odious it is to me ! Abso- lute and unmitigated vulgarity I can put up with , and welcome ; but good Heaven defend me from the ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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"?
Página 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.