The Quarterly Review, Volume 142John Murray, 1876 - English literature |
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... feet ; as though the final cause of the indignity had been only to enhance the triumph of his re - election . Twice at least in the House of Commons he arrested the successful progress of legislative mea- sures , and slew them at a ...
... feet ; as though the final cause of the indignity had been only to enhance the triumph of his re - election . Twice at least in the House of Commons he arrested the successful progress of legislative mea- sures , and slew them at a ...
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... feet that Nature gave him , than on a crutch like this . Quote if you choose publicans on liquor laws , or slave - drivers on the capacities of blacks ; cite Martial as a witness to purity , or Bacchus to sobriety ; put Danton to ...
... feet that Nature gave him , than on a crutch like this . Quote if you choose publicans on liquor laws , or slave - drivers on the capacities of blacks ; cite Martial as a witness to purity , or Bacchus to sobriety ; put Danton to ...
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... feet square and eighteen inches in depth . Yet it may not be labour wholly lost to set down , in what follows , a few results of blended book - lore and observation , and to gather up , from the romance and the realities , the accom ...
... feet square and eighteen inches in depth . Yet it may not be labour wholly lost to set down , in what follows , a few results of blended book - lore and observation , and to gather up , from the romance and the realities , the accom ...
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... feet , and exhibit a luxuriance of dark green foliage , contrasting well with its frosted- silver bark . This latter ... feet from the ground is now fourteen feet three inches , but though several of its branches still justify its ...
... feet , and exhibit a luxuriance of dark green foliage , contrasting well with its frosted- silver bark . This latter ... feet from the ground is now fourteen feet three inches , but though several of its branches still justify its ...
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... feet high . Selby's doubts of its success in this country arose , probably , rather from observation of its slowness of growth in exposed places , than from any susceptibility to frosts . The Q. nigra , or American Black Jack , is as ...
... feet high . Selby's doubts of its success in this country arose , probably , rather from observation of its slowness of growth in exposed places , than from any susceptibility to frosts . The Q. nigra , or American Black Jack , is as ...
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Page 471 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 408 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 199 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 335 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 414 - Ad hanc enim ecclesiam propter potentiorem principalitatem necesse est omnem convenire ecclesiam, hoc est, eos qui sunt undique fideles, in qua semper ab his, qui sunt undique, conservata est ea quae est ab Apostolis traditio.
Page 191 - d to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet...
Page 471 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Page 412 - But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan : thou art an offence unto Me : for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Page 322 - Castle of Otranto,' a story translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 322 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.