The Quarterly Review, Volumen 47William 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, 1832 |
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... body , and to avenge the death of his son , is , through the hostile interposition of Minerva , grievously wounded . In de- scribing the arming of Hercules for this fight the poet devotes about 180 lines to a minute detail of the ...
... body , and to avenge the death of his son , is , through the hostile interposition of Minerva , grievously wounded . In de- scribing the arming of Hercules for this fight the poet devotes about 180 lines to a minute detail of the ...
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... body of men united to any practical purpose by the agency of mere talents . In such a society as that of America , there must , of course , be differences in station , arising out of differences in fortune ; but there is no distinct or ...
... body of men united to any practical purpose by the agency of mere talents . In such a society as that of America , there must , of course , be differences in station , arising out of differences in fortune ; but there is no distinct or ...
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... body of men dis- persed over the country , but co - operating by means of an exact system of discipline , subject to no material or sudden changes . The utility of a church establishment , considered merely in its political view , in ...
... body of men dis- persed over the country , but co - operating by means of an exact system of discipline , subject to no material or sudden changes . The utility of a church establishment , considered merely in its political view , in ...
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... body politic would be liable to those violent paroxysmal convulsions which have torn other countries to pieces . Why America is not thus disturbed is a question which it will be time enough to answer , if ever it be asked , when the two ...
... body politic would be liable to those violent paroxysmal convulsions which have torn other countries to pieces . Why America is not thus disturbed is a question which it will be time enough to answer , if ever it be asked , when the two ...
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... bodies of native Indians , literally savages - to get rid of whom has become , as they tell us , a matter of absolute necessity : -to use their own phrase , the Indian claims must be extinguished . ' We do not accuse the Americans of ...
... bodies of native Indians , literally savages - to get rid of whom has become , as they tell us , a matter of absolute necessity : -to use their own phrase , the Indian claims must be extinguished . ' We do not accuse the Americans of ...
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Página 149 - The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless; A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths. Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped They slept on the abyss, without a surge ; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave; The moon, their mistress, had expired before; The winds were withered...
Página 472 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 333 - The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions.
Página 341 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 362 - To see such bird in such a nest; For he was beautiful as day (When day was beautiful to me...
Página 468 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
Página 100 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Página 50 - ... loathsome spitting, from the contamination of which it was absolutely impossible to protect our dresses; the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter into the mouth ; and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth...
Página 487 - I need say no more ; but as for that Hydra, take good heed, for you know that here I have found it as well cunning as malicious. It is true that your grounds are well laid, and I assure you that I have a great trust in your care and judgment. Yet my opinion is, that it will not be the worse for my service though their obstinacy make you to break them, for I fear that they have some ground to demand more than...
Página 101 - Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read ' The Whole Duty of Man,' from a great part of which I could derive no instruction.