The Quarterly Review, Volumen208William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1908 |
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... brought at last settled government , resulting in an advance in educa- tion , commerce , and industry , which give the happiest promise for the future . A good history of Spain has been very much wanted , and perhaps it would have been ...
... brought at last settled government , resulting in an advance in educa- tion , commerce , and industry , which give the happiest promise for the future . A good history of Spain has been very much wanted , and perhaps it would have been ...
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... brought in something like nine years of misrule . . For several years , during the Calomardian era , ' as it had been called , Spain was little better than a slaughter- house . In eighteen days 112 executions took place ; NINETEENTH ...
... brought in something like nine years of misrule . . For several years , during the Calomardian era , ' as it had been called , Spain was little better than a slaughter- house . In eighteen days 112 executions took place ; NINETEENTH ...
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... brought to a close when Espartero succeeded in convincing the Basques that their beloved fueros ( special rights ) were safer in the hands of the Regency than in those of Don Carlos . For these they had been fighting rather than for the ...
... brought to a close when Espartero succeeded in convincing the Basques that their beloved fueros ( special rights ) were safer in the hands of the Regency than in those of Don Carlos . For these they had been fighting rather than for the ...
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... brought the war to an end , and became the most popular man in Spain , and eventually Regent ; the second , after having made some reputation on the London Stock Exchange as a financier , formed the notion that he could withdraw his ...
... brought the war to an end , and became the most popular man in Spain , and eventually Regent ; the second , after having made some reputation on the London Stock Exchange as a financier , formed the notion that he could withdraw his ...
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... brought to a successful issue . With the proclamation of Isabel II as of age the Moderados regained power ; and Cristina and her husband returned to fish in the troubled waters of Spanish politics . It is needless to go into the details ...
... brought to a successful issue . With the proclamation of Isabel II as of age the Moderados regained power ; and Cristina and her husband returned to fish in the troubled waters of Spanish politics . It is needless to go into the details ...
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Página 85 - ... sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsic and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction...
Página 121 - To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor as you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth.
Página 89 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Página 142 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where...
Página 90 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
Página 513 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be named and printed heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch What d'ye call.
Página 51 - Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed & govern'd their Passions or have No Passions, but because they have Cultivated their Understandings. The Treasures of Heaven are not Negations of Passion, but Realities of Intellect, from which all the Passions Emanate Uncurbed in their Eternal Glory.
Página 91 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 266 - When he came back to Athens, bringing word of the calamity, the wives of those who had been sent out on the expedition took it sorely to heart that he alone should have survived the slaughter of all the rest; — they therefore crowded round the man, and struck him with the brooches by which their dresses were fastened — each, as she struck, asking him where he had left her husband.
Página 354 - Abandon'd to delicious thought Beneath the softly twinkling shade. The leaves, all stirring, mimick'd well A neighbouring rush of rivers cold, And, as the sun or shadow fell, So these were green and those were gold ; In dim recesses hyacinths droop'd, And breadths of primrose lit the air, Which, wandering through the woodland, stoop'd And gather'd perfumes here and there ; Upon the spray the squirrel swung, And careless songsters, six or seven, Sang lofty songs the leaves among, Fit for their only...