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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... surprized General Matthews , that he attributed it , in the first place , to the Divine decrees , ' and in the second , to the panic of the enemy . ' ( ii . p . 455. ) 6 When Tippoo was accused by General Macleod of his faithless ...
... surprized General Matthews , that he attributed it , in the first place , to the Divine decrees , ' and in the second , to the panic of the enemy . ' ( ii . p . 455. ) 6 When Tippoo was accused by General Macleod of his faithless ...
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... surprized two thousand Nairs with their families , and gave them the alternative of a voluntary profession of the Mahomedan faith , or a forcible conversion , with deportation from their native land . The unhappy captives chose the ...
... surprized two thousand Nairs with their families , and gave them the alternative of a voluntary profession of the Mahomedan faith , or a forcible conversion , with deportation from their native land . The unhappy captives chose the ...
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... surprized him ; but he was more especially charmed with the beauty of his voice . He only remarked , that he did not shake , and asked him the reason with a smile . The child smartly replied , " How could you expect me to shake , when ...
... surprized him ; but he was more especially charmed with the beauty of his voice . He only remarked , that he did not shake , and asked him the reason with a smile . The child smartly replied , " How could you expect me to shake , when ...
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... surprized , said he was ready to answer his questions . The nobleman began , and from the very first bar found something to remark upon every note . Haydn , with whom invention was a habit , and who was the opposite of a pedant , found ...
... surprized , said he was ready to answer his questions . The nobleman began , and from the very first bar found something to remark upon every note . Haydn , with whom invention was a habit , and who was the opposite of a pedant , found ...
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... surprized by this strange proposition , requested that the keys might be covered , and immediately played with one finger only , with as much clearness and precision as if he had long prac- tised it . " From his earliest years , his ...
... surprized by this strange proposition , requested that the keys might be covered , and immediately played with one finger only , with as much clearness and precision as if he had long prac- tised it . " From his earliest years , his ...
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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.