The Quarterly Review, Volume 237William 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, 1922 |
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... followed suit almost immediately , though their edition is undated . Its text indeed is far better than that of the Globe , ' but in many important respects the book is quite as unsatisfactory . For instance , it keeps the absurd order ...
... followed suit almost immediately , though their edition is undated . Its text indeed is far better than that of the Globe , ' but in many important respects the book is quite as unsatisfactory . For instance , it keeps the absurd order ...
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... followed , on Oct. 1 , whereby Menelik was definitely recognised by Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia , ' and the boundaries were changed on the basis of de facto possession , which had since May been considerably altered by Italian advances ...
... followed , on Oct. 1 , whereby Menelik was definitely recognised by Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia , ' and the boundaries were changed on the basis of de facto possession , which had since May been considerably altered by Italian advances ...
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... followed next year by Great Britain . Henceforth Menelik's task was not to extend his already overgrown territory , but to prevent revolts and to consolidate the Empire that he had won ; and at the same time to secure it against further ...
... followed next year by Great Britain . Henceforth Menelik's task was not to extend his already overgrown territory , but to prevent revolts and to consolidate the Empire that he had won ; and at the same time to secure it against further ...
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... followed by ' Avice , ' that little master- piece of winged lightness which sacrificed nothing to poverty of sentiment ; by A Dead Letter , ' in which the narrative form borders for the first time on the dramatic ; and by The Sick Man ...
... followed by ' Avice , ' that little master- piece of winged lightness which sacrificed nothing to poverty of sentiment ; by A Dead Letter , ' in which the narrative form borders for the first time on the dramatic ; and by The Sick Man ...
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... followed by the river completely leaving its channel and forming a new one miles away , after inun- dating the whole country . Such was Noah's flood in the early days of the world's history . ' In the Tigris - Euphrates delta we must ...
... followed by the river completely leaving its channel and forming a new one miles away , after inun- dating the whole country . Such was Noah's flood in the early days of the world's history . ' In the Tigris - Euphrates delta we must ...
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Page 4 - tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear...
Page 458 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Page 29 - THERE is nothing which more astonishes a foreigner, and frights a country squire, than the Cries of London.* My good friend Sir ROGER often declares that he cannot get them out of his head, or go to sleep for them, the first week that he is in town.
Page 32 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 102 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Page 56 - The tone should not be pitched high ; it should be idiomatic, and rather in the conversational key ; the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire poem should be marked by tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness...
Page 132 - The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organizations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 26 - ... and seemed drawn up in a kind of battlearray one against another. After a short survey of them, I found they were patched differently ; the faces on one hand being spotted on the right side of the forehead, and those upon the other on the left. I quickly perceived that they cast hostile glances upon one another ; and that their patches were placed in those different...
Page 20 - I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself, and accosted him after the following manner : " Well, Jack, the old prig is dead at last. Sharp's the word. Now or never, boy. Up to the walls of Paris directly," — with several other deep reflections of the same nature.
Page 25 - I had seen him represent. The gloom of the place, and faint lights before the ceremony appeared, contributed to the melancholy disposition I was in ; and I began to be extremely afflicted, that Brutus and Cassius had any difference, that Hotspur's gallantry was so unfortunate, and that the mirth and good humour of Falstaff could not exempt him from the grave.