The Quarterly Review, Volumen 7William 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, 1812 |
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... readers who wish to obtain information on the subjects of which they treat . In these lectures , his happy talent of mak- ing a forcible application to the feelings of his hearers , is , we think , more conspicuous , and more skilfully ...
... readers who wish to obtain information on the subjects of which they treat . In these lectures , his happy talent of mak- ing a forcible application to the feelings of his hearers , is , we think , more conspicuous , and more skilfully ...
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... to mark the burial places of the natives . And here we must gratify our readers with the most beautiful passage in Sir G. Mackenzie's book . F 3 The The moral and religious habits of the people at large 1612 . 85 Travels in Iceland .
... to mark the burial places of the natives . And here we must gratify our readers with the most beautiful passage in Sir G. Mackenzie's book . F 3 The The moral and religious habits of the people at large 1612 . 85 Travels in Iceland .
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... Reading ; where he amuses himself with writing books , in one of which , by way of recommending himself to the ... reader , ' happen to be one of those reptiles who pleasantly enough style themselves critics , and who , without giving ...
... Reading ; where he amuses himself with writing books , in one of which , by way of recommending himself to the ... reader , ' happen to be one of those reptiles who pleasantly enough style themselves critics , and who , without giving ...
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... readers that his interpretation of the word cpen has no other au- thority to support it than the opprobrious use of ... reader judge from the verse to which we are referred . ' If any man come to me , and hate not father and mother , and ...
... readers that his interpretation of the word cpen has no other au- thority to support it than the opprobrious use of ... reader judge from the verse to which we are referred . ' If any man come to me , and hate not father and mother , and ...
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... readers like themselves . If attention is now to be awakened , compression , brevity , arrangement , lively illustration , and elegance , will be neces- sary : such however are the attainments of the present race of scholars , that ...
... readers like themselves . If attention is now to be awakened , compression , brevity , arrangement , lively illustration , and elegance , will be neces- sary : such however are the attainments of the present race of scholars , that ...
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Página 188 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!
Página 195 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Página 156 - 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.
Página 293 - who should teach them all things, and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them...
Página 378 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Página 378 - No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers. Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Página 377 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Página 194 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Página 48 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Página 98 - But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned, Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh : but I spare you.