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Comprised in a Series of Notes , Sixteen Hundred in Number , illustrative of the most difficult Passages in his Plays - to the various Editions of which the present Volumes form a complete and necessary Supplement . By Andrew Becket .
Comprised in a Series of Notes , Sixteen Hundred in Number , illustrative of the most difficult Passages in his Plays - to the various Editions of which the present Volumes form a complete and necessary Supplement . By Andrew Becket .
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On the present State of Public Affairs . 3. A Proposal for putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom . By the Hermit of Marlow - New Publications . Index . 511 - 553 - 561 - THE " THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . OCTOBER , 1816 . ART .
On the present State of Public Affairs . 3. A Proposal for putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom . By the Hermit of Marlow - New Publications . Index . 511 - 553 - 561 - THE " THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . OCTOBER , 1816 . ART .
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On the present occasion we have nothing to find fault with but the omissions . We could have wished to know something more of the ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to ...
On the present occasion we have nothing to find fault with but the omissions . We could have wished to know something more of the ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to ...
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... Egypt : they then elected Mahomed Ali , the present pashaw , their chief , who has proved himself a man of extraordinary talents and enterprize , though taken from the humble station of captain of a pirate boat in the Archipelago .
... Egypt : they then elected Mahomed Ali , the present pashaw , their chief , who has proved himself a man of extraordinary talents and enterprize , though taken from the humble station of captain of a pirate boat in the Archipelago .
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... I struck the remains of this colossal figure with a key ; but , being all solid , I found it as dumb as any block of granite buried in the earth . ' Our present travellers passed upwards with a fair wind from Thebes , reserving the ...
... I struck the remains of this colossal figure with a key ; but , being all solid , I found it as dumb as any block of granite buried in the earth . ' Our present travellers passed upwards with a fair wind from Thebes , reserving the ...
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Página 397 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 198 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
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Página 202 - A small green isle, it seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Página 195 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 86 - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch ; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes.
Página 195 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Página 202 - It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No check — no change — no good — no crime — But silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless...
Página 184 - Demons in act, but gods at least in face, In Conrad's form seems little to admire, Though his dark eyebrow shades a glance of fire : Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height ; Yet, in the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men ; They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.