The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... means of instruction , in an art so important . We shall in vain search our numerous sea - ports for one establish- ment where our sons may be trained to hardihood in an element on which the best years of their lives may perhaps have to ...
... means of instruction , in an art so important . We shall in vain search our numerous sea - ports for one establish- ment where our sons may be trained to hardihood in an element on which the best years of their lives may perhaps have to ...
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... means which have given wealth and power to these little islands , so much beyond what nature promised them ; and here find what the course of policy is which can make the most free of empires the strongest . As long as the advantage is ...
... means which have given wealth and power to these little islands , so much beyond what nature promised them ; and here find what the course of policy is which can make the most free of empires the strongest . As long as the advantage is ...
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... means than those of France , we cannot help concluding , in contradiction to M. de Staël , that , at least since the date of our Magna Charta , Britain has had the start of her rival in civiliza- tion properly so called , by much more ...
... means than those of France , we cannot help concluding , in contradiction to M. de Staël , that , at least since the date of our Magna Charta , Britain has had the start of her rival in civiliza- tion properly so called , by much more ...
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... means of influencing votes - they cannot deny the number of pounds of wool , cotton , or silk , which we spin and weave . Still , D 3 however , however , they have a subterfuge for holding us wonderfully History and Prospects of English ...
... means of influencing votes - they cannot deny the number of pounds of wool , cotton , or silk , which we spin and weave . Still , D 3 however , however , they have a subterfuge for holding us wonderfully History and Prospects of English ...
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... means wish to depreciate the merits of beau- tiful tapestry , or to say that the Gobelins is not a very fine establishment ; but , taking all things into consideration , we prefer seeing a peasantry well and warmly clothed , to the ...
... means wish to depreciate the merits of beau- tiful tapestry , or to say that the Gobelins is not a very fine establishment ; but , taking all things into consideration , we prefer seeing a peasantry well and warmly clothed , to the ...
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Page 154 - 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 90 - 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 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 249 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Page 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Page 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 241 - 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.