The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 29John George Cochrane 1842 |
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... feeling of the fraternal connexion quite peculiar to this race . The brother is proud of possessing a sister ; the sister ... feel when subject to a tyrannical capricious rule . Marriage , again , is with them a link no longer individual ...
... feeling of the fraternal connexion quite peculiar to this race . The brother is proud of possessing a sister ; the sister ... feel when subject to a tyrannical capricious rule . Marriage , again , is with them a link no longer individual ...
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... feel bound to say something con- cerning them . But our task is difficult , and Goethe himself failed , as we think , to do them justice , owing to his ignorance of the social habits of the people , the outline of which the foregoing ...
... feel bound to say something con- cerning them . But our task is difficult , and Goethe himself failed , as we think , to do them justice , owing to his ignorance of the social habits of the people , the outline of which the foregoing ...
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... feel- ing of hatred on the one side , and of contempt on the other ; and to this mutual estrangement may , in a great measure , be attri- buted the obscurity into which all the early annals of the country have sunk . * At an early ...
... feel- ing of hatred on the one side , and of contempt on the other ; and to this mutual estrangement may , in a great measure , be attri- buted the obscurity into which all the early annals of the country have sunk . * At an early ...
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... feels like that of a cavern , and a somewhat lively imagination might easily fancy the whole city a curious piece of carving in a rock , through which a multi- tude of narrow winding passages had been cut at an enormous cost of labour ...
... feels like that of a cavern , and a somewhat lively imagination might easily fancy the whole city a curious piece of carving in a rock , through which a multi- tude of narrow winding passages had been cut at an enormous cost of labour ...
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... feel as though you had stepped out of the Germany of the middle ages into the modernised Russia of the nineteenth cen- tury . The streets , in the true Russian fashion , are broad , smart , and of interminable length . The houses ...
... feel as though you had stepped out of the Germany of the middle ages into the modernised Russia of the nineteenth cen- tury . The streets , in the true Russian fashion , are broad , smart , and of interminable length . The houses ...
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Page 335 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 167 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 463 - Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso," which contains fine translations from Tasso and is otherwise valuable.
Page 337 - Gan thunder, and both ends of heaven ; the clouds From many a horrid rift abortive poured Fierce rain with lightning mixed, water with fire In ruin reconciled ; nor slept the winds Within their stony caves, but rushed abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell On the vexed wilderness...
Page 340 - And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 83 - Ce ne sont pas les hommes ici qui prient les femmes, ce sont les femmes qui prient les hommes.
Page 340 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 477 - I never drink to excess, and have, without vanity, too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity. No, it is my PRIDE, my damn'd native unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction.
Page 477 - Upon recollection I don't know how Mr. Clayfield could come by his letter, as I intended to have given him a letter, but did not. In regard to my motives for the supposed rashness, I shall observe, that I keep no worse company than myself. I never drink to excess, and have without vanity too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity.
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