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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... relations with a lady , Florentine by birth and married into one of the principal families here , which now make up a great part of my life . She is not young , but ( believe it from one who till now thought the thing impossible ) her ...
... relations with a lady , Florentine by birth and married into one of the principal families here , which now make up a great part of my life . She is not young , but ( believe it from one who till now thought the thing impossible ) her ...
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... relation between sound and meaning in languages so diverse as the Arabic and the Italian . To venture a final opinion on his work would require not only deep learning , but long study of his rather illegible hand- writing . Casual ...
... relation between sound and meaning in languages so diverse as the Arabic and the Italian . To venture a final opinion on his work would require not only deep learning , but long study of his rather illegible hand- writing . Casual ...
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... relations with the two ladies who through him achieved celebrity . That he exerted a very potent fascination upon women is undeni- able . It comes out again and again in the correspondence . His brilliant talk no doubt counted for much ...
... relations with the two ladies who through him achieved celebrity . That he exerted a very potent fascination upon women is undeni- able . It comes out again and again in the correspondence . His brilliant talk no doubt counted for much ...
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... relations with Vanessa seem as intelligible as his calmer relations with Stella . It appears impossible to misunderstand the references - the repeated catalogues of references - to tender meetings : ' Remember that riches are nine parts ...
... relations with Vanessa seem as intelligible as his calmer relations with Stella . It appears impossible to misunderstand the references - the repeated catalogues of references - to tender meetings : ' Remember that riches are nine parts ...
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... relations between the two were what might have been expected ; Tyrrell's career in the Society all but came to a premature close . For him its Shibboleth re- mained Sibboleth : ' he could not frame to pronounce it right . ' He resented ...
... relations between the two were what might have been expected ; Tyrrell's career in the Society all but came to a premature close . For him its Shibboleth re- mained Sibboleth : ' he could not frame to pronounce it right . ' He resented ...
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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