The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1915 |
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... never exceeded his powers of endurance , and were frequently relieved by magnificent entertainment in the seats of learning he visited - religious foundations and princes vying for the honour of having provided the environment in which ...
... never exceeded his powers of endurance , and were frequently relieved by magnificent entertainment in the seats of learning he visited - religious foundations and princes vying for the honour of having provided the environment in which ...
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... never long forgets that Tasso holds the pen . Judged by its output , Tasso's mind , to the last , burned bright and clear , as may be gathered from his farewell to Mother Earth ( Mondo Creato , ' Fifth Day ) , a passage written when ...
... never long forgets that Tasso holds the pen . Judged by its output , Tasso's mind , to the last , burned bright and clear , as may be gathered from his farewell to Mother Earth ( Mondo Creato , ' Fifth Day ) , a passage written when ...
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... never sat . There is , as Lord Halsbury pointed out , ' no logic in that ' ; indeed , it is the doctrine against which those who represent the Crown have to be ever on their guard . Of the remaining claims , that to Dynaunt was ...
... never sat . There is , as Lord Halsbury pointed out , ' no logic in that ' ; indeed , it is the doctrine against which those who represent the Crown have to be ever on their guard . Of the remaining claims , that to Dynaunt was ...
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... never became so , and of making Constance his heir , instead of his co - heir . Here , then , we find that the doubt suggested by the long interval of time is amply confirmed by the serious errors which the document actually contains ...
... never became so , and of making Constance his heir , instead of his co - heir . Here , then , we find that the doubt suggested by the long interval of time is amply confirmed by the serious errors which the document actually contains ...
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... never successful . The experiment has been tried with great thoroughness in Poland ; and the Poles are now more of a nation than they were under the oppressive feudal system which existed before the partitions . Our own empire would be ...
... never successful . The experiment has been tried with great thoroughness in Poland ; and the Poles are now more of a nation than they were under the oppressive feudal system which existed before the partitions . Our own empire would be ...
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Page 403 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 240 - The trade of neutrals with belligerents in articles not contraband is absolutely free, unless interrupted by blockade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contraband articles is always unlawful, and such articles may always be seized during transit by sea. Hence, while articles, not contraband...
Page 79 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 316 - And none to pity thee ! . . . Thou little thing That curlest in my arms, what sweet scents cling All round thy neck! Beloved; can it be All nothing, that this bosom cradled thee And fostered; all the weary nights, wherethrough I watched upon thy sickness, till I grew Wasted with watching? Kiss me. This one time; Not ever again. Put up thine arms, and climb About my neck: now, kiss me, lips to lips.
Page 240 - Hence, while articles, not contraband, might be sent to Matamoras and beyond to the rebel region, where the communications were not interrupted by blockade, articles of a contraband character, destined in fact to a State in rebellion, or for the use of the rebel military forces, were liable to capture though primarily destined to Matamoras. We are obliged to conclude that the portion of the cargo which we have characterized as contraband must be condemned.
Page 231 - Article 4 A blockade is not regarded as raised if the blockading force is temporarily withdrawn on account of stress of weather. Article 5 A blockade must be applied impartially to the ships of all nations.
Page 49 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass...
Page 413 - Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 413 - Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.