The Quarterly Review, Volumen18William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1818 |
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... continued their pursuits with ardour under the pressure of calamity . ' Such are Lord Holland's remarks upon this part of Lope de Vega's history ; and it is indeed certain that minds are elastic in proportion as they are active ; and ...
... continued their pursuits with ardour under the pressure of calamity . ' Such are Lord Holland's remarks upon this part of Lope de Vega's history ; and it is indeed certain that minds are elastic in proportion as they are active ; and ...
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... continued penance , which would be duly debited in the account of his good works . Camden has finely described the appearance of this formidable armament when the English first obtained sight of it : They discovered the Spanish fleet ...
... continued penance , which would be duly debited in the account of his good works . Camden has finely described the appearance of this formidable armament when the English first obtained sight of it : They discovered the Spanish fleet ...
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... continued upon the false gallop ' every day , is for- getting that dinners and suppers and sleeping hours ' must be excepted ; and that a large deduction must be made for the avo- cations , the distractions , the enjoyments , and the ...
... continued upon the false gallop ' every day , is for- getting that dinners and suppers and sleeping hours ' must be excepted ; and that a large deduction must be made for the avo- cations , the distractions , the enjoyments , and the ...
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... continued for three months , with more perseverance than military skill on the side of Hyder ; and on the part of the besieged , with a mixture of enthusiastic fatalism , and heedless , headlong valour , which is strongly characteristic ...
... continued for three months , with more perseverance than military skill on the side of Hyder ; and on the part of the besieged , with a mixture of enthusiastic fatalism , and heedless , headlong valour , which is strongly characteristic ...
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... continued to be the topic of stupid ridicule at Madras , until the conflagration of the surrounding country , and the actual appearance of the bleeding fugitives , roused this most extraordinary conclave from a slumber , which has no ...
... continued to be the topic of stupid ridicule at Madras , until the conflagration of the surrounding country , and the actual appearance of the bleeding fugitives , roused this most extraordinary conclave from a slumber , which has no ...
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Página 457 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 463 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Página 494 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Página 381 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 331 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 196 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Página 314 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Página 456 - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry...
Página 381 - I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the...
Página 377 - After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life ; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.