The Quarterly Review, Volume 54John Murray, 1835 |
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... French Cook . A System of Fashionable and Economical Cookery ; adapted to the Use of English Families , & c . By Louis Eustace Ude , ci - devant Cook to Louis XVI . and the Earl of Sefton , & c . & c . & c . Twelfth Edition . With ...
... French Cook . A System of Fashionable and Economical Cookery ; adapted to the Use of English Families , & c . By Louis Eustace Ude , ci - devant Cook to Louis XVI . and the Earl of Sefton , & c . & c . & c . Twelfth Edition . With ...
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... French critic , ' there is hardly a page of her work in which she does not exhibit an example of it - here is one of the most moderate : - 6 ' The steadfast shining of the moon held high supremacy in heaven . The bay lay like molten ...
... French critic , ' there is hardly a page of her work in which she does not exhibit an example of it - here is one of the most moderate : - 6 ' The steadfast shining of the moon held high supremacy in heaven . The bay lay like molten ...
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... French clothes , and looked very stiff ; but , however , a first visit is an awkward thing , and nothing that isn't thorough - bred ever does it quite well . . . Worked till dinner - time . My dear father , who was a little elated ...
... French clothes , and looked very stiff ; but , however , a first visit is an awkward thing , and nothing that isn't thorough - bred ever does it quite well . . . Worked till dinner - time . My dear father , who was a little elated ...
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... French gourmand , who exclaimed ' avec cette sauce on mangerait SON PROPRE PERE ! ' Those who should believe that she was serious in these , and twenty other similar passages , passages , would think that she must be strangely deficient ...
... French gourmand , who exclaimed ' avec cette sauce on mangerait SON PROPRE PERE ! ' Those who should believe that she was serious in these , and twenty other similar passages , passages , would think that she must be strangely deficient ...
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... French character as viewed by a steady German eye , in the compass of these two little volumes , that we have met with few narratives little ( 78 ) [ July , History of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, illustrated by original ...
... French character as viewed by a steady German eye , in the compass of these two little volumes , that we have met with few narratives little ( 78 ) [ July , History of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, illustrated by original ...
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Page 48 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 292 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 336 - Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although. it be not shined upon.
Page 62 - ... was there no pleasure in being a poor man? or can those neat black clothes which you wear now, and are so careful to keep brushed, since we have become rich and finical, give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that overworn...
Page 336 - And glories of my King. When I shall voyce aloud, how good He is, how great should be, Inlarged winds, that curie the flood, Know no such liberty.
Page 180 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 68 - Twas but in a sort I blamed thee : None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss.
Page 180 - Bound to thy service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.
Page 59 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios; must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces? Must knowledge come to me. if it come at all. by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there, wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face — the "sweet assurance of a look"?
Page 47 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.