The Quarterly Review, Volume 213William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1910 |
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... French and says a few words , but is altogether backward in language , very intelli- gent , and generous , and good - tempered , with a few passions and stampings occasionally . Most exemplary in politeness and manner , bows and offers ...
... French and says a few words , but is altogether backward in language , very intelli- gent , and generous , and good - tempered , with a few passions and stampings occasionally . Most exemplary in politeness and manner , bows and offers ...
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... French or German languages , came naturally to his lips , and no one ever excelled him in the power of putting in musical cadence and perfectly chosen words sentiments of courteous welcome or graceful acknowledgment . Those who heard ...
... French or German languages , came naturally to his lips , and no one ever excelled him in the power of putting in musical cadence and perfectly chosen words sentiments of courteous welcome or graceful acknowledgment . Those who heard ...
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... French origin - as in parlour , couch , sunkets - is instantly noted for foreign , unhomely , and tells with the intended touch of mislike . It is here , I think , rather than in the mere gain of an extra key- board , that Scott gets ...
... French origin - as in parlour , couch , sunkets - is instantly noted for foreign , unhomely , and tells with the intended touch of mislike . It is here , I think , rather than in the mere gain of an extra key- board , that Scott gets ...
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... French and Latin , even Greek , points from the Pentateuch , and rhythms modelled upon the Psalms . You will hardly find anywhere a finer example of what can be done by economy of art than the simple effects of this passage , the ...
... French and Latin , even Greek , points from the Pentateuch , and rhythms modelled upon the Psalms . You will hardly find anywhere a finer example of what can be done by economy of art than the simple effects of this passage , the ...
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... French towns and the comparatively low ones seen in those in England , and especially America . Thus the death - rate per 10,000 living is , in Boulogne - sur - Mer , 17 · 5 ; in Rouen , 16.9 ; and in Paris , 118 ; whereas in London it ...
... French towns and the comparatively low ones seen in those in England , and especially America . Thus the death - rate per 10,000 living is , in Boulogne - sur - Mer , 17 · 5 ; in Rouen , 16.9 ; and in Paris , 118 ; whereas in London it ...
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Page 231 - Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 80 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 87 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 418 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 85 - The Lady of Shalott. Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darken'd wholly, Turn'd to tower'd Camelot; For ere she reach'd upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott.
Page 84 - Brimming, and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and...
Page 36 - Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, ' ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Page 40 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 272 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.
Page 286 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...