The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 - English literature |
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... look of the compassionate lady at the window consoled the bereaved lover , and he was afterwards ashamed of his disloyalty , and returned to his first love with a new intensity of passion . These three are all Emblems , and they are ...
... look of the compassionate lady at the window consoled the bereaved lover , and he was afterwards ashamed of his disloyalty , and returned to his first love with a new intensity of passion . These three are all Emblems , and they are ...
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... look back , it seems to me that my Religion was supported by Faith on one side and by Reason on the other . Such appears to have been the state of my mind in my eighteenth year . ' I mentally resolved to make religion the chief aim of ...
... look back , it seems to me that my Religion was supported by Faith on one side and by Reason on the other . Such appears to have been the state of my mind in my eighteenth year . ' I mentally resolved to make religion the chief aim of ...
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... look into the gardens of the villas of those days , we should see terraces and statues and glistening marble fountains , gorgeous yet familiar flowers and tangled masses of creepers , and beautifully kept paths leading out of the bright ...
... look into the gardens of the villas of those days , we should see terraces and statues and glistening marble fountains , gorgeous yet familiar flowers and tangled masses of creepers , and beautifully kept paths leading out of the bright ...
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... look upon their predecessors in the reign of Elizabeth as people who had known comparatively little ; and if Evelyn , busy in his garden at Says Court , laughed at those who issued their compleat ' works on gardening , the inpouring of ...
... look upon their predecessors in the reign of Elizabeth as people who had known comparatively little ; and if Evelyn , busy in his garden at Says Court , laughed at those who issued their compleat ' works on gardening , the inpouring of ...
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... look upon an artificial stream and exclaim , ' Thames ! Thames ! thou wilt never forgive me ! ' ' Capa- bility ' Brown and his successor Repton were the agents who robbed posterity of beautiful old - fashioned gardens , in every county ...
... look upon an artificial stream and exclaim , ' Thames ! Thames ! thou wilt never forgive me ! ' ' Capa- bility ' Brown and his successor Repton were the agents who robbed posterity of beautiful old - fashioned gardens , in every county ...
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Page 319 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
Page 440 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 424 - THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 330 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 356 - Lo, dost thou not see, Meg, that these blessed fathers be now as cheerfully going to their deaths as bridegrooms to their marriage...
Page 424 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 182 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not; but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile: all else deep snow and ice...
Page 448 - Your worships may understand, that, because I have no safer a store-house, these pockets do serve me for a room to lay up my goods in ; and though it be a strait prison, yet it is big enough for them...
Page 330 - They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world : the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Page 439 - These flaming heads with staring haire, These wyers turnde like homes of ram : These painted faces which they weare, Can any tell from whence they cam ? Dan Sathan, Lord of fayned lyes, All these new fangeles did devise.