The Quarterly Review, 118. köideWilliam 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, 1865 |
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... portion of the land which was under the plough , for the most part in detached patches , produced a crop of oats or bear , scanty at the best of times , precarious always ; so ungrateful the soil , and so rude the climate . The number ...
... portion of the land which was under the plough , for the most part in detached patches , produced a crop of oats or bear , scanty at the best of times , precarious always ; so ungrateful the soil , and so rude the climate . The number ...
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... portions of rivers affording perhaps only four or five good casts . Several of the best salmon rivers are farmed ; that is to say , let at so much per day , or week , or month . About fifty pounds is the average sum per rod for the ...
... portions of rivers affording perhaps only four or five good casts . Several of the best salmon rivers are farmed ; that is to say , let at so much per day , or week , or month . About fifty pounds is the average sum per rod for the ...
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... portion , -and when the octogenarian asks barely a sup of gruel and a fire of dry sticks and thanks you for his full allowance and right in the common good of life , -hoping nobody may murder him , - he who began by asking and expecting ...
... portion , -and when the octogenarian asks barely a sup of gruel and a fire of dry sticks and thanks you for his full allowance and right in the common good of life , -hoping nobody may murder him , - he who began by asking and expecting ...
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... portion of such people that can , may revolutionise and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit . ' * As the people of the North now regard with affection the memory of their late President , and treasure up all his ...
... portion of such people that can , may revolutionise and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit . ' * As the people of the North now regard with affection the memory of their late President , and treasure up all his ...
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... portion of the State . The risk at the time was no doubt serious ; the object was of large importance ; but motives of prudence or advantage are no answer to the plain fact that the disintegration of a State , secession in its worst ...
... portion of the State . The risk at the time was no doubt serious ; the object was of large importance ; but motives of prudence or advantage are no answer to the plain fact that the disintegration of a State , secession in its worst ...
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Page 529 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Page 96 - OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
Page 315 - To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 104 - It's dull in our town since my playmates left! I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new...
Page 84 - Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop ; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture...
Page 85 - Here - here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
Page 80 - Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark...
Page 98 - Pulcinello-trumpet breaks up the market beneath. At the post-office such a scene-picture — the new play, piping hot ! And a notice how, only this morning, three liberal thieves were shot. Above it, behold the Archbishop's most fatherly of rebukes, And beneath, with his crown and his lion, some little new law of the Duke's ! Or a sonnet with flowery marge, to the reverend Don So-and-so Who is Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Saint Jerome and Cicero, 'And moreover...
Page 97 - HAD I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square ; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there ! II. Something to see, by Bacchus, something to hear, at least ! There, the whole day long, one's life is a perfect feast ; While up at a villa one lives, I maintain it, no more than a beast.
Page 315 - The glorious company of the Apostles, The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, The noble army of Martyrs praise thee.