The Quarterly Review, Volume 23William 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, 1820 - English literature |
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... importance , that , for the sake of obtaining it , he had stained his history by a most inhuman and wholesale per ... important respects the most valuable of our English his- torians , is also the model of an English statesman , for ...
... importance , that , for the sake of obtaining it , he had stained his history by a most inhuman and wholesale per ... important respects the most valuable of our English his- torians , is also the model of an English statesman , for ...
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... important town ; but Nimeguen was without a garrison , and even without a single cannon mounted on the ram- parts : the duke was joined by Tallard , and made a sudden move against it . It was saved by the vigorous resistance of the ...
... important town ; but Nimeguen was without a garrison , and even without a single cannon mounted on the ram- parts : the duke was joined by Tallard , and made a sudden move against it . It was saved by the vigorous resistance of the ...
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... importance to the common cause was now instantaneously and instinctively acknowledged . The conduct of the Dutch on this occasion was highly honourable . The com- mon people crowded to meet him when he landed at the Hague , all crying ...
... importance to the common cause was now instantaneously and instinctively acknowledged . The conduct of the Dutch on this occasion was highly honourable . The com- mon people crowded to meet him when he landed at the Hague , all crying ...
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... important ac- cession to their strength , in the Duke of Savoy . But on the side of Germany the French had obtained some important successes . M. Tallard had taken Brisac , which was the strongest bulwark of the empire on that side ...
... important ac- cession to their strength , in the Duke of Savoy . But on the side of Germany the French had obtained some important successes . M. Tallard had taken Brisac , which was the strongest bulwark of the empire on that side ...
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... important enterprize ; and though he himself was not shackled as he had been by Dutch deputies , and generals who were more desirous to frustrate his plans than to execute his orders , he knew too well the evil which might result from ...
... important enterprize ; and though he himself was not shackled as he had been by Dutch deputies , and generals who were more desirous to frustrate his plans than to execute his orders , he knew too well the evil which might result from ...
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Page 92 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 543 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 311 - 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.
Page 305 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 563 - Hail to the State of England ! And conjoin With this a salutation as devout, Made to the spiritual fabric of her Church; Founded in truth ; by blood of martyrdom Cemented ; by the hands of wisdom reared In beauty of holiness, with ordered pomp, Decent, and unreproved.
Page 561 - Christian religion, shall, by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny the Christian religion to be true, or the holy scriptures to be of divine authority, he shall upon the first offence be rendered incapable to hold any office or place of trust; and for the second be rendered incapable of bringing any action, being guardian, executor, legatee, or purchaser of lands, and shall suffer three years
Page 576 - Our ancestors d:d feelingly perceive, What in those holy structures ye possess Of ornamental interest, and the charm Of pious sentiment diffused afar, And human charity, and social love. — Thus never shall the indignities of time Approach their reverend graces, unopposed; Nor shall the elements be free to hurt Their fair proportions ; nor the blinder rage Of bigot zeal madly to overturn...
Page 169 - And what is Life ? — An hour-glass on the run, A mist, retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated dream, — Its length ? — A minute's pause, a moment's thought. And happiness ? — A bubble on the stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought.
Page 411 - ... my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
Page 543 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?