Quarterly Review, 110. köideJohn Murray, 1861 |
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... doubt about the paramount utility of a public school educa- tion ; though at the age of six years the world of strife , ' as opened to him by his elder brother , proved anything but soothing to his feelings . This brother seems , in all ...
... doubt about the paramount utility of a public school educa- tion ; though at the age of six years the world of strife , ' as opened to him by his elder brother , proved anything but soothing to his feelings . This brother seems , in all ...
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... doubt not that the summer of this year did constitute an epoch in De Quincey's life which justifies the title conferred upon it . He arrived in Dublin in the month of June , and was present at the final act of the old Irish Parliament ...
... doubt not that the summer of this year did constitute an epoch in De Quincey's life which justifies the title conferred upon it . He arrived in Dublin in the month of June , and was present at the final act of the old Irish Parliament ...
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... doubt , an uncommonly agreeable one , Mr. Tom forthwith proposed to take the lady through Herodotus . He drew such a picture of the vivacious and mer- curial Athenian , ' & c . & c . , that his mistress was fascinated by the idea , and ...
... doubt , an uncommonly agreeable one , Mr. Tom forthwith proposed to take the lady through Herodotus . He drew such a picture of the vivacious and mer- curial Athenian , ' & c . & c . , that his mistress was fascinated by the idea , and ...
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... doubt substantially correct , and is equally creditable to his candour and his goodness of heart . One of these female acquaintances he has singled out from the rest , under the name of Anne , a young girl of not more than sixteen years ...
... doubt substantially correct , and is equally creditable to his candour and his goodness of heart . One of these female acquaintances he has singled out from the rest , under the name of Anne , a young girl of not more than sixteen years ...
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... troubles as most men meet with in this life , has been my heaviest affliction . ' We have no doubt that , at the moment of writing these words , he really thought so . But 6 But it is easy to trace through the whole 10 Thomas De Quincey .
... troubles as most men meet with in this life , has been my heaviest affliction . ' We have no doubt that , at the moment of writing these words , he really thought so . But 6 But it is easy to trace through the whole 10 Thomas De Quincey .
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Page 467 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 468 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 327 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 447 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 461 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 328 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 456 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 296 - For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry : 'Proclaim the faults he would not show : Break lock and seal: betray the trust: Keep nothing sacred : 'tis but just The many-headed beast should know.
Page 441 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 542 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...