The Quarterly Review, Volumen168William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1889 |
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... common skill , possessed great conversational powers , and had a rare command of her pen . Disraeli wrote of it : ' the com- * The house which he inhabited was one at the corner of Hart Street . † Lord Beaconsfield's brother Ralph was ...
... common skill , possessed great conversational powers , and had a rare command of her pen . Disraeli wrote of it : ' the com- * The house which he inhabited was one at the corner of Hart Street . † Lord Beaconsfield's brother Ralph was ...
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... common . It is therefore a mistake to state , as some of his biographers have done , that the appearance of ' Vivian Grey ' at once opened the doors of the great world to its author , and that his head was turned by the petting and ...
... common . It is therefore a mistake to state , as some of his biographers have done , that the appearance of ' Vivian Grey ' at once opened the doors of the great world to its author , and that his head was turned by the petting and ...
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... common course of existence , and from necessity must be so , ' he told Mr. Austen . The life that he was leading , his wanderings on horseback by day and by night through the plains and sierras of Andalusia , with their exhilarating air ...
... common course of existence , and from necessity must be so , ' he told Mr. Austen . The life that he was leading , his wanderings on horseback by day and by night through the plains and sierras of Andalusia , with their exhilarating air ...
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... common sense , and eminently practical , and his religious senti- ments were manly and sincere . His zeal for the Church never led him to sanction or desire an act of bigotry or intolerance , and his devotion to the Comte de Chambord ...
... common sense , and eminently practical , and his religious senti- ments were manly and sincere . His zeal for the Church never led him to sanction or desire an act of bigotry or intolerance , and his devotion to the Comte de Chambord ...
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... M. Thiers . " I never knew , " he said , " a more amiable and loyal disposition than that of Charles X. He had the faults common in his genera- tion , and those due to his bringing up ; tion , Memoirs of a Royalist . 61.
... M. Thiers . " I never knew , " he said , " a more amiable and loyal disposition than that of Charles X. He had the faults common in his genera- tion , and those due to his bringing up ; tion , Memoirs of a Royalist . 61.
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Página 318 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 304 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 488 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Página 423 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 434 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.
Página 488 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 248 - All I can add in my solitude is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one— American, English, or Turk — who will help to heal this open sore of the world.
Página 340 - Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-off years which still live in us, and transform our perception into love.
Página 434 - The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early ! 1 March 15.
Página 151 - ... all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...