The Quarterly Review, Volumen18William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1818 |
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... civil and military , to break down the embankments of the reservoirs , on the approach of the Mahratta army ; to poison the wells with milk - hedge ( euphorbia tiraculli ) ; to burn all the forage , even to the thatch of the houses ; to ...
... civil and military , to break down the embankments of the reservoirs , on the approach of the Mahratta army ; to poison the wells with milk - hedge ( euphorbia tiraculli ) ; to burn all the forage , even to the thatch of the houses ; to ...
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... civil office of trust and importance ; Ali died under the tortures which were inflicted to extort money which he did not possess : he was considered as an able and an honourable man . The next was also a man of integrity , but not of ...
... civil office of trust and importance ; Ali died under the tortures which were inflicted to extort money which he did not possess : he was considered as an able and an honourable man . The next was also a man of integrity , but not of ...
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... civil and military authorities of Madras , and the tardy and ungracious assistance from Bengal , would probably have been accepted , Tippoo at once began to indulge his favourite dream of driving them out of the peninsula . The fortress ...
... civil and military authorities of Madras , and the tardy and ungracious assistance from Bengal , would probably have been accepted , Tippoo at once began to indulge his favourite dream of driving them out of the peninsula . The fortress ...
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... civil and mili- tary ; the official designations of all persons and things , without one exception ; exhibiting , ' as Colonel Wilks remarks , a singular coin- cidence , at nearly one and the same time , and in distant and uncon- nected ...
... civil and mili- tary ; the official designations of all persons and things , without one exception ; exhibiting , ' as Colonel Wilks remarks , a singular coin- cidence , at nearly one and the same time , and in distant and uncon- nected ...
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... civil rank and authority , they , in no single instance , ad- mitted them into their own order or into the Christian ministry . In the management both of children and adults , the rod and the lash lash appear to have been liberally ...
... civil rank and authority , they , in no single instance , ad- mitted them into their own order or into the Christian ministry . In the management both of children and adults , the rod and the lash lash appear to have been liberally ...
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Página 457 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 463 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Página 494 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Página 381 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 331 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 196 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Página 314 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Página 456 - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry...
Página 381 - I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the...
Página 377 - After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life ; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.