The Quarterly Review, Volume 21William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1819 |
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Page 116
... passed through the Grotto della Pietra Perciata , a rocký defile close to the sea , remarkable for its gloomy grandeur . In one part the rock is pierced through . It was at this place that robbers used formerly to fire on passengers ...
... passed through the Grotto della Pietra Perciata , a rocký defile close to the sea , remarkable for its gloomy grandeur . In one part the rock is pierced through . It was at this place that robbers used formerly to fire on passengers ...
Page 117
... passed my comprehension : but when the one who was most heavily laden arrived , he did not hesitate an instant ; but resting himself on his feet , or rather his hocks , slid down with perfect coolness and safety . The skill and success ...
... passed my comprehension : but when the one who was most heavily laden arrived , he did not hesitate an instant ; but resting himself on his feet , or rather his hocks , slid down with perfect coolness and safety . The skill and success ...
Page 131
... passing his days in a country where such brutalizing scenes as those which we have noticed , and which , Mr. Fearon says , his friends had often lamented , must be perpetually before his eyes : -and they exist , with few excep- tions ...
... passing his days in a country where such brutalizing scenes as those which we have noticed , and which , Mr. Fearon says , his friends had often lamented , must be perpetually before his eyes : -and they exist , with few excep- tions ...
Page 136
... passed between him and the author , whom he belabours without mercy . I took the blade ( he says ) for a de- cent tailor , my son William for a shopkeeper's clerk , and Mrs. Churcher ( the help ) for a slippery young man , ' ( a thief ...
... passed between him and the author , whom he belabours without mercy . I took the blade ( he says ) for a de- cent tailor , my son William for a shopkeeper's clerk , and Mrs. Churcher ( the help ) for a slippery young man , ' ( a thief ...
Page 169
... passed into a law : but , it seems , from Mr. Smith's statement that , during the discussion of it in the Upper House , some objections were taken by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice to the form in which it was first ...
... passed into a law : but , it seems , from Mr. Smith's statement that , during the discussion of it in the Upper House , some objections were taken by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice to the form in which it was first ...
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Page 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Page 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Page 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Page 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.