The Quarterly Review, Volume 218William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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... appeared to him his principal duty . To get rid of him the liberal majority in the governing boards of Harvard College passed a vote , still in force , that the President of the College must actually reside in the town of Cambridge ...
... appeared to him his principal duty . To get rid of him the liberal majority in the governing boards of Harvard College passed a vote , still in force , that the President of the College must actually reside in the town of Cambridge ...
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... appearance ; and in seeing him one thought of a child cast adrift in wind and rain and cold ' ( ii , 284 ) . ་ He complained little ; but it was impossible that certain obvious comparisons should not force themselves upon him at times ...
... appearance ; and in seeing him one thought of a child cast adrift in wind and rain and cold ' ( ii , 284 ) . ་ He complained little ; but it was impossible that certain obvious comparisons should not force themselves upon him at times ...
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... appearance . The account which Prior himself is said to have drawn up for Jacob's ' Lives of the Poets ' is both jejune and inaccurate ; and what there is of the personal in the posthumous and largely spurious History of my own Time ...
... appearance . The account which Prior himself is said to have drawn up for Jacob's ' Lives of the Poets ' is both jejune and inaccurate ; and what there is of the personal in the posthumous and largely spurious History of my own Time ...
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... appeared in 1733 , favours the Rummer . This view is strongly seconded by Place's letter . On the other hand , Sir James Montagu , a better authority than Humphreys , gives the Rhenish as the scene of the momentous meeting between Prior ...
... appeared in 1733 , favours the Rummer . This view is strongly seconded by Place's letter . On the other hand , Sir James Montagu , a better authority than Humphreys , gives the Rhenish as the scene of the momentous meeting between Prior ...
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... appeared in 1687 , has been spoken of as Prior's first authenticated poem , though it is known that he was early a - rhyming . A version from Horace is supposed to have attracted the fortunate attention of the Earl of Dorset , himself ...
... appeared in 1687 , has been spoken of as Prior's first authenticated poem , though it is known that he was early a - rhyming . A version from Horace is supposed to have attracted the fortunate attention of the Earl of Dorset , himself ...
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Page 14 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Page 436 - As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight line drawn across the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles.
Page 436 - Convention, the object of which is to regulate the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters, shall apply to the subjects of the High Contracting Parties.
Page 375 - I saw the world and yet I was not seen; My thread is cut and yet it is not spun, And now I live, and now my life is done. I sought my death and found it in my womb, I looked for life and saw it was a shade, I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb, And now I die, and now I was but made; My glass is full, and now my glass is run, And now I live, and now my life is done.
Page 509 - Versailles • gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers.
Page 15 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost. A vivid conception of the scene and its feelings came over me, and I was moved to tears. From this moment my burden grew lighter. The oppression of the thought that all feeling was dead within me, was gone.
Page 15 - I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living when life must be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year.
Page 378 - Till the result of the rising was known, London was full first of alarm, then of flying reports of victory. Thomas Bette, in his "Ballad against Rebellious and false Rumours," says: Some longeth to hear tell Of those that dyd rebell, And whether they be fled or take, Thus still enquirie they do make; Some sayth to Scotland they be goe, And others sayth it is not so. The small minority of Londoners with Romanist leanings minimised the rumours of the Earls' flight as long as it was possible. But it...
Page 15 - At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.
Page 390 - Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity for redirecting it...