The North British Review, 19. köideW.P. Kennedy, 1853 |
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Page 55
... Italian peninsula , be- cause she would thereby enrich herself enormously , and obtain a vantage - ground which sooner or later she would be certain to use to the injury and emperilment of her neighbours . Do not let Russia dismember ...
... Italian peninsula , be- cause she would thereby enrich herself enormously , and obtain a vantage - ground which sooner or later she would be certain to use to the injury and emperilment of her neighbours . Do not let Russia dismember ...
Page 56
... Italy would not long since have been parcelled out between Austria and France , but for the obvious impossibility of their agreeing about the division of the spoil , and the certain veto that England and Russia would have interposed to ...
... Italy would not long since have been parcelled out between Austria and France , but for the obvious impossibility of their agreeing about the division of the spoil , and the certain veto that England and Russia would have interposed to ...
Page 62
... Italians , offered her advice and mediation , and though she refused to aid the insurgent patriots by her arms , she was quite prepared to have recognised their independence had they been able to establish it . She dis- approved of ...
... Italians , offered her advice and mediation , and though she refused to aid the insurgent patriots by her arms , she was quite prepared to have recognised their independence had they been able to establish it . She dis- approved of ...
Page 63
... Italy and Hungary called forth manifestations of her feelings which that power can never forgive , and is now ... Italians , Sclavonians , Croats , and Magyars , and has perpetually but vainly endeavoured to blend and fuse all these ...
... Italy and Hungary called forth manifestations of her feelings which that power can never forgive , and is now ... Italians , Sclavonians , Croats , and Magyars , and has perpetually but vainly endeavoured to blend and fuse all these ...
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... Italian struggle - in the march of the Romans and Neapolitans to join the Lombards — in the gallant but unsuccessful ... Italy " one and indivisible . " This again was at the bottom of the internecine contest between Austria and Hungary ...
... Italian struggle - in the march of the Romans and Neapolitans to join the Lombards — in the gallant but unsuccessful ... Italy " one and indivisible . " This again was at the bottom of the internecine contest between Austria and Hungary ...
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Page 322 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Page 300 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 268 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear.
Page 320 - And for three hours he sobb'd o'er William's child Thinking of William. So those four abode Within one house together ; and as years Went forward, Mary took another mate ; But Dora lived unmarried till her death.
Page 316 - Stop and consider ! life is but a day, A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit ; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan ? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown ; The reading of an ever-changing tale ; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil ; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air ; A laughing school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.
Page 300 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 130 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 424 - I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth ; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.
Page 322 - Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 322 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!