The Quarterly Review, Volym 7William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1812 |
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... volumes of the present edition and it is on these that his literary reputation will chiefly rest . We consider them amongst the best productions of this kind , which the present times have produced . Without giving him the title of a ...
... volumes of the present edition and it is on these that his literary reputation will chiefly rest . We consider them amongst the best productions of this kind , which the present times have produced . Without giving him the title of a ...
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... a most interesting and valuable volume ; and though much yet remains for the researches of the geologist , yet a full No. VIII . p . 540 . and and satisfactory knowledge of the physical appearance , and the 1812 . 61 Travels in Iceland .
... a most interesting and valuable volume ; and though much yet remains for the researches of the geologist , yet a full No. VIII . p . 540 . and and satisfactory knowledge of the physical appearance , and the 1812 . 61 Travels in Iceland .
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... volume proves our author's intimate acquaintance with the history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , and his sagacity has unques- tionably suggested to him the adoption of a manner so attractive in itself , and so well ...
... volume proves our author's intimate acquaintance with the history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , and his sagacity has unques- tionably suggested to him the adoption of a manner so attractive in itself , and so well ...
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... volume , there exists some specific precept by which kings , in order to attain to the most sublime of the christian virtues , are required to exchange a ' sceptre for a cowl . ' In that volume we discern a very different spirit . We ...
... volume , there exists some specific precept by which kings , in order to attain to the most sublime of the christian virtues , are required to exchange a ' sceptre for a cowl . ' In that volume we discern a very different spirit . We ...
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Sida 188 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!
Sida 195 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Sida 156 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Sida 293 - who should teach them all things, and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them...
Sida 378 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Sida 378 - No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers. Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Sida 377 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Sida 194 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Sida 48 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Sida 98 - But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned, Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh : but I spare you.