The Quarterly Review, Volumen 19William 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, 1818 |
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... speak it ) my own grandfather had standing at Wotton , and about that estate , timber that now were worth 100,000l . since of what was left my father ( who was a great pre- server of wood ) there has been 30,000l . worth of timber ...
... speak it ) my own grandfather had standing at Wotton , and about that estate , timber that now were worth 100,000l . since of what was left my father ( who was a great pre- server of wood ) there has been 30,000l . worth of timber ...
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... speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from the tower of the ...
... speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from the tower of the ...
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... speaking of the Italians in general , says the women wash their heads weekly in a wash made for the nonce , and dry them again in the sun to make their hair yellow , a colour much in vogue there among the ladies . ' It was the age of ...
... speaking of the Italians in general , says the women wash their heads weekly in a wash made for the nonce , and dry them again in the sun to make their hair yellow , a colour much in vogue there among the ladies . ' It was the age of ...
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... speak of a certain man who , when he was upon his death - bed , enjoined his son to spend his time in composing verses , and culti- vating a garden , because he thought that no temptation could creep into either of these employments ...
... speak of a certain man who , when he was upon his death - bed , enjoined his son to spend his time in composing verses , and culti- vating a garden , because he thought that no temptation could creep into either of these employments ...
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... speak or write in favour of him . It was twice printed , so universally it took . ' He soon engaged in a far more serious transaction . Colonel Morley was the governor of the Tower . They had been school - fellows , and divided as they ...
... speak or write in favour of him . It was twice printed , so universally it took . ' He soon engaged in a far more serious transaction . Colonel Morley was the governor of the Tower . They had been school - fellows , and divided as they ...
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Página 200 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 256 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Página 220 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
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Página 261 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
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Página 201 - Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal— a new birth...
Página 200 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in ; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season ; the mid forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead...
Página 127 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a smellingbottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.