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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... thought , and it was never through long years absent from the minds of his father and mother . Not a week , not a day , not an hour of the time of this precious youth could safely or properly be wasted . Other lads might occa- sionally ...
... thought , and it was never through long years absent from the minds of his father and mother . Not a week , not a day , not an hour of the time of this precious youth could safely or properly be wasted . Other lads might occa- sionally ...
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... thought mean by many an Eton boy in these pluto- cratic days - out of which he found his own hats and ties and the small trifles indispensable to a boy's toilet , and for which he accounted to the Queen . It was the first step along the ...
... thought mean by many an Eton boy in these pluto- cratic days - out of which he found his own hats and ties and the small trifles indispensable to a boy's toilet , and for which he accounted to the Queen . It was the first step along the ...
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... thought it a failing , indicative of a narrow intelligence , which it sometimes accompanies , although no detail ever escaped the eyes of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . In point of fact , the King's own dress throughout his life was ...
... thought it a failing , indicative of a narrow intelligence , which it sometimes accompanies , although no detail ever escaped the eyes of Napoleon or Frederick the Great . In point of fact , the King's own dress throughout his life was ...
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... thought may conduce to the benefit of the Prince of Wales . " The Prince of Wales has arrived at that period in his life when the state of transition commences from the habits , the dependence , and the subjection to control of a boy to ...
... thought may conduce to the benefit of the Prince of Wales . " The Prince of Wales has arrived at that period in his life when the state of transition commences from the habits , the dependence , and the subjection to control of a boy to ...
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... thought , and is learning almost unconsciously from objective teaching much which , I think , could never have been taught him subjectively . ' This accurate and discerning analysis of his capacity was true of King Edward then and ...
... thought , and is learning almost unconsciously from objective teaching much which , I think , could never have been taught him subjectively . ' This accurate and discerning analysis of his capacity was true of King Edward then and ...
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Page 229 - 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 78 - 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 83 - 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 82 - 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 34 - This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. — Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh — see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan. — Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram — what do ye glower after our folk for?
Page 270 - 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 38 - 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 43 - I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants. 'Stephen,' said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice — * Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand — due at last term.
Page 284 - 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...
Page 82 - Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foil'd circuitous wanderer — till at last The long'd-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.