The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 181. köideA. Constable, 1895 |
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... Ireland was seriously taken up . It must be clear to those who look back upon the results of this policy that much confusion would have been avoided if the order of these reforms had been reversed . In Ireland this may or may not have ...
... Ireland was seriously taken up . It must be clear to those who look back upon the results of this policy that much confusion would have been avoided if the order of these reforms had been reversed . In Ireland this may or may not have ...
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... Ireland . ' When we were come into 55 degrees and 13 minutes to the north- ward , 30 leagues east of Newcastle , the Lord Admiral determined to fight with them again on the Friday , being the 2nd of August [ O. S. ] , but by some advice ...
... Ireland . ' When we were come into 55 degrees and 13 minutes to the north- ward , 30 leagues east of Newcastle , the Lord Admiral determined to fight with them again on the Friday , being the 2nd of August [ O. S. ] , but by some advice ...
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... Ireland , the Englishmen of the time , instead of imitating the methods of countries circumstanced altogether differently from their own , looked up what had been done by our fellow - countrymen in days of national danger . The results ...
... Ireland , the Englishmen of the time , instead of imitating the methods of countries circumstanced altogether differently from their own , looked up what had been done by our fellow - countrymen in days of national danger . The results ...
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... Ireland - is apt to be attended by considerable difficulty in procuring fresh provi- sions ; and it is still not altogether unknown for ships of war to put to sea unexpectedly , and leave a part of their stores behind . Howard's letters ...
... Ireland - is apt to be attended by considerable difficulty in procuring fresh provi- sions ; and it is still not altogether unknown for ships of war to put to sea unexpectedly , and leave a part of their stores behind . Howard's letters ...
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... Ireland of a famine more pitiless and unpitied , save one , that has ever afflicted that unhappy country . Without a pretence of religious zeal , the Cabinet , of which he was the animating spirit , kept up the code of sectarian ...
... Ireland of a famine more pitiless and unpitied , save one , that has ever afflicted that unhappy country . Without a pretence of religious zeal , the Cabinet , of which he was the animating spirit , kept up the code of sectarian ...
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Page 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
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Page 527 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
Page 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Page 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.