The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 17J. Ridgeway amd sons, 1844 - English periodicals |
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Page 201 - BELL (Sir Charles). The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts.
Page 296 - And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them : therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
Page 243 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 296 - Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day. lest there be an uproar among the people.
Page 652 - To force a sovereign upon a reluctant people, would be as inconsistent with the policy as it is with the principles of the British Government, tending to place the arms and resources of that people at the disposal of the first invader, and to impose the burden of supporting a sovereign without the prospect of benefit from his alliance.
Page 652 - Content with the limits Nature appears to have assigned to its Empire, the Government of India will devote all its efforts to the establishment and maintenance of general peace, to the protection of the sovereigns and chiefs, its allies, and to the prosperity and happiness of its own faithful subjects.
Page 225 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 97 - But mark the chance, myself to Vance,, By friendship's lot, to Paul's I got ; So found I grace, a certain space Still to remain : With Redford§ there, the like no where, For cunning such, and virtue much, By whom some part, of musick art, So did I gain.
Page 240 - Ere that I leave with song of praise her praise to solemnize, Her praise, whence to the world all praise hath his only beginning. But yet well I do find each man most wise in his own case. None can speak of a wound with skill, if he have not a wound felt...
Page 524 - I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal — of the...