The Quarterly Review, Volumen 196William 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, 1902 |
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... existence is really one of the miracles of history ; and the memories of men are so short that it cannot be amiss to explain why the loyalty of the Colonies , priceless as it is , is a thing which Great Britain had , until quite recent ...
... existence is really one of the miracles of history ; and the memories of men are so short that it cannot be amiss to explain why the loyalty of the Colonies , priceless as it is , is a thing which Great Britain had , until quite recent ...
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... existence of such a desire ; and the policy pursued by New Zealand upon the question of federation , when Australasia alone was concerned , seems to point in the opposite direction . There is , however , abundant evidence of a desire to ...
... existence of such a desire ; and the policy pursued by New Zealand upon the question of federation , when Australasia alone was concerned , seems to point in the opposite direction . There is , however , abundant evidence of a desire to ...
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... existence ; but he was still looking in the main to European models . The demand for ' a national literature ' rested , indeed , upon a very crude theory . First - rate genius does not show itself by contempt for its prede- cessors . It ...
... existence ; but he was still looking in the main to European models . The demand for ' a national literature ' rested , indeed , upon a very crude theory . First - rate genius does not show itself by contempt for its prede- cessors . It ...
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... existence , the sane and vigorous genius of the middle classes , from which the greatest dramatists had sprung , was diverted into other channels ; and the stage therefore lost its sound and genial outlook on life . Jack Donne , the ...
... existence , the sane and vigorous genius of the middle classes , from which the greatest dramatists had sprung , was diverted into other channels ; and the stage therefore lost its sound and genial outlook on life . Jack Donne , the ...
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... existence of animal life at great depths was demonstrated . With Sir James Ross's expedition we may be said to have reached modern times : his most distinguished companion , Sir Joseph Hooker , is still living . It is im- possible to do ...
... existence of animal life at great depths was demonstrated . With Sir James Ross's expedition we may be said to have reached modern times : his most distinguished companion , Sir Joseph Hooker , is still living . It is im- possible to do ...
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Página 42 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Página 483 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Página 461 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 327 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their...
Página 458 - Whenas the rye reach to the chin, And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within, Strawberries swimming in the cream, And school-boys playing in the stream ; Then O, then O, then O, my true love said, Till that time come again She could not live a maid ! AN.
Página 88 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction.
Página 45 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 177 - IT is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair: Tell me not of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid...
Página 442 - The Shepheardes Calendar, Conteyning twelve Aeglogues proportionable to the Twelve monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie M. Philip Sidney.
Página 191 - And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revellers : the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue — 'Twas Bacchus and his crew ! The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din — 'Twas Bacchus and his kin ! Like...