The Quarterly Review, Volume 241William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1924 |
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... thought of the ducks , seeking only the shortest way across the grazing marshes , when a wild commotion of wings drew my eyes towards a swampy hollow a couple of gunshots ahead , from which to my amazement the flock clattered up like ...
... thought of the ducks , seeking only the shortest way across the grazing marshes , when a wild commotion of wings drew my eyes towards a swampy hollow a couple of gunshots ahead , from which to my amazement the flock clattered up like ...
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... thoughts turned rather to the legendary tales of Hiawatha or Clote Scarpe , when some mundane member of the party murmured ' Geese . ' Instantly every eye was turned upwards . Overhead the heavens were clear - brilliant even - but ...
... thoughts turned rather to the legendary tales of Hiawatha or Clote Scarpe , when some mundane member of the party murmured ' Geese . ' Instantly every eye was turned upwards . Overhead the heavens were clear - brilliant even - but ...
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... thought of doing anybody any good . There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a stone or falling into a river or meeting with some humiliating accident ...
... thought of doing anybody any good . There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a stone or falling into a river or meeting with some humiliating accident ...
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... thought that nonsense had triumphed over accident as the inspiration of comic literature ; but is not nonsense itself a kind of accident , rearranging life into unexpected and incongruous patterns ? 6 I do not know , indeed , whether ...
... thought that nonsense had triumphed over accident as the inspiration of comic literature ; but is not nonsense itself a kind of accident , rearranging life into unexpected and incongruous patterns ? 6 I do not know , indeed , whether ...
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... Thoughts . ' It is strange that this extra- ordinarily amusing book should have been allowed to sink into neglect . It is , perhaps , not quite well enough written to be sure of immortality , but it has every other quality except ...
... Thoughts . ' It is strange that this extra- ordinarily amusing book should have been allowed to sink into neglect . It is , perhaps , not quite well enough written to be sure of immortality , but it has every other quality except ...
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Page 262 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 288 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full...
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Page 347 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
Page 284 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
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Page 279 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Page 320 - Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of the human intellect. The text books tell us that an element is ' a body which has not been decomposed ;' that it is ' a something to which we can add, but from which we can take nothing,' or ' a body which increases in weight with every chemical change.