The Quarterly Review, Volume 34John Murray, 1826 |
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... progress of publication . The Gerusalemme seems to be a greater favourite with the English public than the Furioso ; for it has been twice translated within these few years . Hoole's translation , in the new influx of verses from the ...
... progress of publication . The Gerusalemme seems to be a greater favourite with the English public than the Furioso ; for it has been twice translated within these few years . Hoole's translation , in the new influx of verses from the ...
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... progress was stopped by a broken bridge , he himself assisted in repairing it . On approaching the end of their journey , D'Estrades left his carriage and servants , and proceeded on foot with Matthioli to a place within the French ...
... progress was stopped by a broken bridge , he himself assisted in repairing it . On approaching the end of their journey , D'Estrades left his carriage and servants , and proceeded on foot with Matthioli to a place within the French ...
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... progress in water . The German translation of this work , the named Katlin , who was on deck cutting bread and cheese with a knife , was knocked overboard by the captain gibing the boom . He missed catching hold of the canoe which was ...
... progress in water . The German translation of this work , the named Katlin , who was on deck cutting bread and cheese with a knife , was knocked overboard by the captain gibing the boom . He missed catching hold of the canoe which was ...
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... progress - urge our bodies to a considerable depth- rise again to the surface , and there extend ourselves and repose with as much confidence as on shore . It is natural to suppose that the less we alter our method of advancing in the ...
... progress - urge our bodies to a considerable depth- rise again to the surface , and there extend ourselves and repose with as much confidence as on shore . It is natural to suppose that the less we alter our method of advancing in the ...
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... progress in the water the same as on land . The respiratory organs of man , on the contrary , are less conveniently placed for being protruded upwards ; while an entirely different motion in swimming is re- quired from what is usual to ...
... progress in the water the same as on land . The respiratory organs of man , on the contrary , are less conveniently placed for being protruded upwards ; while an entirely different motion in swimming is re- quired from what is usual to ...
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Page 205 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 144 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Page 298 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 119 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 29 - Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
Page 340 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Page 354 - Action and tone, and gesture, the smile of the lover, the frown of the tyrant, the grimace of the buffoon, — all must be told, for nothing can be shown. Thus, the very dialogue becomes mixed with the narration; for he must not only tell what the characters actually said, in which his task is the same as that of the dramatic author, but must also describe the tone, the look, the gesture, with which their speech was accompanied, — telling, in short, all which, in the drama, it becomes the province...
Page 295 - Crown Cases reserved for Consideration, and decided by the Twelve Judges of England, from the year 1799 to the year 1824. By William Oldnall Russell, and Edward Ryan, of Lincoln's Inn, Esqrs.
Page 315 - I would give him half England, if he asked for it : till the time be ripe he shall tire of asking ere I tire of giving.