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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... appearing in six volumes , of which three are so far issued . We had thought it impossible to excel the accuracy and industry of Mr Temple Scott's annota- tion , yet Dr Elrington Ball bids fair to achieve this pre - eminence ; but , as ...
... appearing in six volumes , of which three are so far issued . We had thought it impossible to excel the accuracy and industry of Mr Temple Scott's annota- tion , yet Dr Elrington Ball bids fair to achieve this pre - eminence ; but , as ...
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... appearance of bias in Dr Ball's notes , we must assume that the lead was inserted by Swift's own hands . There are several points in his career that seem open to different constructions , and there are sentences in many of his letters ...
... appearance of bias in Dr Ball's notes , we must assume that the lead was inserted by Swift's own hands . There are several points in his career that seem open to different constructions , and there are sentences in many of his letters ...
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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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Page 52 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Page 10 - 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 446 - 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 446 - 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 64 - God send you through your law-suit, and your reference. And remember that riches are nine parts in ten of all that is good in life, and health is the tenth ; drinking coffee comes long after, and yet it is the eleventh ; but without the two former you cannot drink it right...
Page 519 - 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 11 - 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 11 - 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 106 - I faced old James and all his court the other day at St. Cloud. Vive Guillaume ! You never saw such a strange figure as the old bully is, [James II.] lean, worn, and rivelled, not unlike Neale, the projector. The queen looks very melancholy, but otherwise well enough : their equipages are all very ragged and contemptible.
Page 376 - Pray now, buy some : I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders