The Quarterly Review, Volume 104William 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, 1858 - English literature |
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... never seems to have lost either the taste which had made him learned or the earnestness which had made him a Puritan . In his twenty - seventh year he was recalled home by the illness of his father . The world had not gone well with the ...
... never seems to have lost either the taste which had made him learned or the earnestness which had made him a Puritan . In his twenty - seventh year he was recalled home by the illness of his father . The world had not gone well with the ...
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... never understand the Civil War , nor be able to think of it without shame and humiliation , unless we will look at the bright as well as the dark side of the contending powers . The fact is , that Puritanism was a genuine expression of ...
... never understand the Civil War , nor be able to think of it without shame and humiliation , unless we will look at the bright as well as the dark side of the contending powers . The fact is , that Puritanism was a genuine expression of ...
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... never dreamt of inter- fering with the general system of society and subordination , but still held to such fundamental ideas as the national religion , the old constitution , and the spirit of a gentleman . ' The regiments of Essex and ...
... never dreamt of inter- fering with the general system of society and subordination , but still held to such fundamental ideas as the national religion , the old constitution , and the spirit of a gentleman . ' The regiments of Essex and ...
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... never rallied from a shock in battle and recovered their good order again like their Roundhead enemies . Their charge was like that curious phenomenon of the Mediterranean , —a white squall , -terrible for the moment , but which passes ...
... never rallied from a shock in battle and recovered their good order again like their Roundhead enemies . Their charge was like that curious phenomenon of the Mediterranean , —a white squall , -terrible for the moment , but which passes ...
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... never carried it from the stout Somersetshire man , who beat them off , and sallied against them in their confusion . Even after Fiennes had sur- rendered the town , Blake stood at bay for a time . This breach of military etiquette ...
... never carried it from the stout Somersetshire man , who beat them off , and sallied against them in their confusion . Even after Fiennes had sur- rendered the town , Blake stood at bay for a time . This breach of military etiquette ...
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Page 171 - A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes, Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
Page 164 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Page 339 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations ,and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Page 106 - Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII. » The Master of the Rolls suggested that these materials should be selected for publication under competent editors without reference to periodical or chronological arrangement, without mutilation or abridgment, preference being given, in the first instance, to such materials as were most scarce and valuable.
Page 43 - sa Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will...
Page 40 - Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest.
Page 46 - Sufferers for religious and political opinions. 6. Persons distinguished for success in tuition. 7. Eminent physicians and medical practitioners. 8. Artists, musicians, and heralds. 9. Heads of colleges, professors, and principal officers of the university. 10. Benefactors to the university and colleges...
Page 106 - Rolls suggested that the editor should give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; but no other note or comment was to be allowed, except what might be necessary to establish the correctness of the text...
Page 432 - I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House of Commons again : I never saw so many wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together.