The Quarterly Review, Volume 250William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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... Italy . It is essentially a ' white ' country ; and there is no limit to its destiny - given its temperate climate and its immense agricultural and pastoral resources . Venezuela and Colombia come within the Caribbean , or ' Canal ...
... Italy . It is essentially a ' white ' country ; and there is no limit to its destiny - given its temperate climate and its immense agricultural and pastoral resources . Venezuela and Colombia come within the Caribbean , or ' Canal ...
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... Italy , which is another Power needing outlets for its large surplus population . Some time ago the American Academy of Political and Social Science sought the opinions of eminent European jurists upon the Monroe Doctrine of Hands Off ...
... Italy , which is another Power needing outlets for its large surplus population . Some time ago the American Academy of Political and Social Science sought the opinions of eminent European jurists upon the Monroe Doctrine of Hands Off ...
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... Italy , which sends tourists from the U.S.A. to rush round the beauty - spots of Europe . In the musical sphere , America has hitherto produced no real genius , and apart from negro folk - songs and syncopated dance tunes , she has ...
... Italy , which sends tourists from the U.S.A. to rush round the beauty - spots of Europe . In the musical sphere , America has hitherto produced no real genius , and apart from negro folk - songs and syncopated dance tunes , she has ...
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... Italy , and having a rigorous compactness yet a graceful movement , is adequate and attractive . For instance , it suits remarkably well Statius ' To Sleep ' and ' The Sleepless Lover ' of Petronius . I give two examples of the ...
... Italy , and having a rigorous compactness yet a graceful movement , is adequate and attractive . For instance , it suits remarkably well Statius ' To Sleep ' and ' The Sleepless Lover ' of Petronius . I give two examples of the ...
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... Italian proverb : 6 ' Chi duo lepri caccia , Uno perde e l'altro lascia , ' literally , ' Who hunts two hares loses one and leaves the other . ' This is best expressed in English by our proverb , ' A bird in the hand is worth two in the ...
... Italian proverb : 6 ' Chi duo lepri caccia , Uno perde e l'altro lascia , ' literally , ' Who hunts two hares loses one and leaves the other . ' This is best expressed in English by our proverb , ' A bird in the hand is worth two in the ...
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Page 274 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 143 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 133 - I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Page 134 - Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illuc, unde negant redire quemquam. At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis : Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis.
Page 132 - Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 88 - If a spirit of rapacious covetousness, desecrating all the humanities of life, has been the besetting sin of England for the last century and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by virtue of philosophic phrases, to propose a Utopia to consist only of WEALTH and TOIL, this has been the breathless business of enfranchised England for the last twelve years, until we are startled from our voracious...
Page 410 - If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine— a friend— or being dry— Or lest we should be, by and by— Or any other reason why!
Page 139 - Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum, Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias.
Page 79 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 133 - IVCVNDVM, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore. di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit, atque id sincere dicat et ex animo, ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.