The Quarterly Review, Volumen54John Murray, 1835 |
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... opinion that they are pro- ductive of scurvy in the Arctic regions , but on Christmas day all hands were indulged with grog , and had even minced pies from the stores of the Fury , and iced cherry - brandy with its fruit . • In some ...
... opinion that they are pro- ductive of scurvy in the Arctic regions , but on Christmas day all hands were indulged with grog , and had even minced pies from the stores of the Fury , and iced cherry - brandy with its fruit . • In some ...
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... opinion of the Commander , on the probability of its stretching north up to Cape Walker , goes for nothing with Sir John Ross . With that perversion of mind which seems to have become habitual , instead of drawing a dotted line on his ...
... opinion of the Commander , on the probability of its stretching north up to Cape Walker , goes for nothing with Sir John Ross . With that perversion of mind which seems to have become habitual , instead of drawing a dotted line on his ...
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... , of so serious a nature that , in our opinion , it ought long ago to have been contradicted distinctly . Sir John may affect to to treat it with what is called silent contempt , c 2 1835. ] 19 in Search of a North - West Passage .
... , of so serious a nature that , in our opinion , it ought long ago to have been contradicted distinctly . Sir John may affect to to treat it with what is called silent contempt , c 2 1835. ] 19 in Search of a North - West Passage .
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... opinion , what did you go for ? ' But Captain Beaufort , on whose character as an able and in the highest sense scientific navigator we need not enlarge , and Commander Ross , who had passed ' fourteen summers and eight winters ' in the ...
... opinion , what did you go for ? ' But Captain Beaufort , on whose character as an able and in the highest sense scientific navigator we need not enlarge , and Commander Ross , who had passed ' fourteen summers and eight winters ' in the ...
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... opinion to me , since this was his duty as my associated though junior officer ; and thence , I presume , they will have further determined , that , in acting as I did , I proceeded in opposition to his declared opinion . If this be the ...
... opinion to me , since this was his duty as my associated though junior officer ; and thence , I presume , they will have further determined , that , in acting as I did , I proceeded in opposition to his declared opinion . If this be 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.