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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... equally ephemeral weekly sheet , and was the author of the Dunciad of To - day , ' a mock - heroic poem , which appeared in it , and was left unfinished when that short- lived periodical came to an end . 6 The mental labour and ...
... equally ephemeral weekly sheet , and was the author of the Dunciad of To - day , ' a mock - heroic poem , which appeared in it , and was left unfinished when that short- lived periodical came to an end . 6 The mental labour and ...
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... equally characteristic of the man . The almost puerile vanity and affectation which distinguished him in youth , if not through life , appear in almost every line of them . But they furnish at the same time ample proofs of that kindness ...
... equally characteristic of the man . The almost puerile vanity and affectation which distinguished him in youth , if not through life , appear in almost every line of them . But they furnish at the same time ample proofs of that kindness ...
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... equally popular . Affectation tells here even better than wit . ' Of affectation , ' indeed , he had a large stock . We have heard it said that the cards , which he left upon the authorities and his acquaintances in the island , had ...
... equally popular . Affectation tells here even better than wit . ' Of affectation , ' indeed , he had a large stock . We have heard it said that the cards , which he left upon the authorities and his acquaintances in the island , had ...
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... equally calculated to arrest public attention even in those times . ' 6 The reputation which he had acquired by Vivian Grey , ' his travels in countries at that time rarely visited by Englishmen , and his calculated eccentricities of ...
... equally calculated to arrest public attention even in those times . ' 6 The reputation which he had acquired by Vivian Grey , ' his travels in countries at that time rarely visited by Englishmen , and his calculated eccentricities of ...
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... equally removed from the impulse and the sentimentality of modern times ; which bent nature as it bent men to its will , and rendered the rule of Venice for centuries stable in itself , and the one stable element in Italy . To state ...
... equally removed from the impulse and the sentimentality of modern times ; which bent nature as it bent men to its will , and rendered the rule of Venice for centuries stable in itself , and the one stable element in Italy . To state ...
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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 553 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it ; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Página 436 - Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 500 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Página 553 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes : and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.
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 500 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Página 541 - To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide their feet into the way of peace.
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.