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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... tion fitting him , as a writer , to achieve greatness , and , with the exception of the founder of Italian literature , has no absolute superior among his countrymen . In the sphere of conduct , high principle and conscientiousness few ...
... tion fitting him , as a writer , to achieve greatness , and , with the exception of the founder of Italian literature , has no absolute superior among his countrymen . In the sphere of conduct , high principle and conscientiousness few ...
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... tion , who writes to communicate it to his readers ; it is the work of a poet , who sets forth in prose , under the cloak of imaged history , the preoccupation , the effort , the torment , the love and the faith of his whole life ...
... tion , who writes to communicate it to his readers ; it is the work of a poet , who sets forth in prose , under the cloak of imaged history , the preoccupation , the effort , the torment , the love and the faith of his whole life ...
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... tion , yet Dr Elrington Ball bids fair to achieve this pre - eminence ; but , as he is the first to confess , with a generous acknowledgment of others ' help which is among his natural graces , he could never have succeeded so well if ...
... tion , yet Dr Elrington Ball bids fair to achieve this pre - eminence ; but , as he is the first to confess , with a generous acknowledgment of others ' help which is among his natural graces , he could never have succeeded so well if ...
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... tion in the British Museum , which must have been made by Swift with an idea of its ultimate publication , there is evidence that every letter from his English friends which did not trench dangerously on the politics of the day was kept ...
... tion in the British Museum , which must have been made by Swift with an idea of its ultimate publication , there is evidence that every letter from his English friends which did not trench dangerously on the politics of the day was kept ...
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... tion of Christianity ; and , for Catholics , Christianity of Catholicism . For him this order had been inverted ; the triangle stood on its apex , not its base . Hence a radical insecurity ; the house was built on sand . ' I , in my ...
... tion of Christianity ; and , for Catholics , Christianity of Catholicism . For him this order had been inverted ; the triangle stood on its apex , not its base . Hence a radical insecurity ; the house was built on sand . ' I , in my ...
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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