The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1816 |
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... given of those wonderful monuments to have tended to confuse rather than illustrate , seems to think that it belonged to the statue of Memnon , and that all the travellers for the last 2,000 years have been deceived in the object of ...
... given of those wonderful monuments to have tended to confuse rather than illustrate , seems to think that it belonged to the statue of Memnon , and that all the travellers for the last 2,000 years have been deceived in the object of ...
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... given their name ; a frugal , harmless , and honest people , subsisting chiefly on dates , millet , and a few leguminous plants : they are rigid Mahomedans . For the first eighteen miles , the mountains are described as hemming in the ...
... given their name ; a frugal , harmless , and honest people , subsisting chiefly on dates , millet , and a few leguminous plants : they are rigid Mahomedans . For the first eighteen miles , the mountains are described as hemming in the ...
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... given by Mr. Legh of this extraordinary traveller . At Dakki there is a fine temple quite perfect , with the hiero- glyphics in high relief , and in an excellent state of preservation . The height of the Propylon is about fifty feet ...
... given by Mr. Legh of this extraordinary traveller . At Dakki there is a fine temple quite perfect , with the hiero- glyphics in high relief , and in an excellent state of preservation . The height of the Propylon is about fifty feet ...
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... given to them , but rather to be attributed to the Ptolemies . ' We searched , ' says Mr. Legh , more than an hour , with his book in our hands . ' We are rather surprized at this , as the inscription is none of the shortest ; the place ...
... given to them , but rather to be attributed to the Ptolemies . ' We searched , ' says Mr. Legh , more than an hour , with his book in our hands . ' We are rather surprized at this , as the inscription is none of the shortest ; the place ...
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... given some reasons ( if reasons , ' as Mr. Phillips cautiously observes , they can be called , ' ) against presenting a catholic petition at that particular time : he shews too that repeated discussions have had the effect of reducing ...
... given some reasons ( if reasons , ' as Mr. Phillips cautiously observes , they can be called , ' ) against presenting a catholic petition at that particular time : he shews too that repeated discussions have had the effect of reducing ...
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Página 196 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 393 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 194 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Página 86 - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch ; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes.
Página 252 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 197 - Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Página 200 - My daughter! with thy name thus much shall end — I see thee not, — I hear thee not, — but none Can be so wrapt in thee ; thou art the friend To whom the shadows of far years extend : Albeit my brow thou never shouldst behold, My voice shall with thy future visions blend, And reach into thy heart, — when mine is cold, — A token and a tone, even from thy father's mould.
Página 195 - Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 195 - Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm!
Página 206 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, But let us part fair foes; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing; I would also deem O'er others...