The Quarterly Review, Volume 159William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1885 - English literature |
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... interest in which the scene is not laid in that spot . ' ( He then adds :-) It is curious how in sleep , when the personal activity and self - consciousness which connect us mainly with the present are lulled to rest , the mind almost ...
... interest in which the scene is not laid in that spot . ' ( He then adds :-) It is curious how in sleep , when the personal activity and self - consciousness which connect us mainly with the present are lulled to rest , the mind almost ...
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... interest . His regard for his old Master continued unabated to the last , and was heartily re- ciprocated . On achieving any honourable distinction or ob- taining any fresh accession of dignity , he always delighted to communicate the ...
... interest . His regard for his old Master continued unabated to the last , and was heartily re- ciprocated . On achieving any honourable distinction or ob- taining any fresh accession of dignity , he always delighted to communicate the ...
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... interest the following modest record of the impressions retained by another of Mansel's pupils ( the Rev. John Earle , Professor of Anglo - Saxon ) , of the benefit he derived from a very brief acquaintance with Mansel's teaching about ...
... interest the following modest record of the impressions retained by another of Mansel's pupils ( the Rev. John Earle , Professor of Anglo - Saxon ) , of the benefit he derived from a very brief acquaintance with Mansel's teaching about ...
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... interest . We are every one of us sufficiently philosophical to enter into the sentiments he so gracefully expresses , though we might find it difficult to express our meaning with the same tenderness , truth , and beauty : - ' I have ...
... interest . We are every one of us sufficiently philosophical to enter into the sentiments he so gracefully expresses , though we might find it difficult to express our meaning with the same tenderness , truth , and beauty : - ' I have ...
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... interest which Mansel's delivery of his Bampton Lectures excited in Oxford was extraordinary : the strangest feature of the case being , that those compositions were so entirely ' over the heads ' of most of those who nevertheless every ...
... interest which Mansel's delivery of his Bampton Lectures excited in Oxford was extraordinary : the strangest feature of the case being , that those compositions were so entirely ' over the heads ' of most of those who nevertheless every ...
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Page 262 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 151 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 152 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend: but what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 76 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 28 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Page 172 - I then kissed her. She told me that to part was the greatest pain that she had ever felt, and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place. I expressed with swelled eyes, and great emotion of tenderness, the same hopes. We kissed and parted. I humbly hope to meet again, and to part no more...
Page 293 - a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous.
Page 109 - Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days.
Page 290 - ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 172 - Sunday, Oct. 18, 1767. Yesterday, Oct. 17, at about ten in the morning, I took my leave for ever of my dear old friend, Catherine Chambers, who came to live with my mother about 1724, and has been but little parted from us since. She buried my father, my brother, and my mother.