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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... occasion he actually displayed , is represented ; and by a less pardonable perversion he is said to have delivered Eng- land from the Spanish Armada , not by his courage and seamanship , but by taking a piece of wood and cutting it in ...
... occasion he actually displayed , is represented ; and by a less pardonable perversion he is said to have delivered Eng- land from the Spanish Armada , not by his courage and seamanship , but by taking a piece of wood and cutting it in ...
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... occasion , he justifies his choice in the preface , and gives the preference to the vernacular metres over those which Boscan and Garcilaso , at Navagero's instigation , had introduced from the Italian . He would have done well in ...
... occasion , he justifies his choice in the preface , and gives the preference to the vernacular metres over those which Boscan and Garcilaso , at Navagero's instigation , had introduced from the Italian . He would have done well in ...
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... occasion of an extraordinary prize being awarded to him for having written upon all the nine contests , -this prize was a draft for two hundred crowns upon the banks or Flanders - which are like the banks of Newfoundland ; and in his C ...
... occasion of an extraordinary prize being awarded to him for having written upon all the nine contests , -this prize was a draft for two hundred crowns upon the banks or Flanders - which are like the banks of Newfoundland ; and in his C ...
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... occasion in which the name of Burguillos was brought forward . It was afterwards frequently used on similar occasions , and , in 1634 , Lope published a volume under the title of Rimas Humanas y Divinas del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos ...
... occasion in which the name of Burguillos was brought forward . It was afterwards frequently used on similar occasions , and , in 1634 , Lope published a volume under the title of Rimas Humanas y Divinas del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos ...
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... occasion that Hyder overran the Carnatic with an army of more than 80,000 men , almost realizing those tremendous scenes of de- solation which Burke so forcibly , but somewhat too poetically , described , and which continued to be the ...
... occasion that Hyder overran the Carnatic with an army of more than 80,000 men , almost realizing those tremendous scenes of de- solation which Burke so forcibly , but somewhat too poetically , described , and which continued to be the ...
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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.