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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... passed into the hands of the stranger . * These innovations are regarded with no satisfaction by those whose national prepossessions are strong : their love of fatherland revolts at this naturalisation of the alien in the Highlands . Mr ...
... passed into the hands of the stranger . * These innovations are regarded with no satisfaction by those whose national prepossessions are strong : their love of fatherland revolts at this naturalisation of the alien in the Highlands . Mr ...
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... passed between us ; but we had not yet met , when one day in October I was shooting down the river - side and the islands in the Findhorn , making out a bag of partridges laboriously . It was a windy day , and the birds going off wild ...
... passed between us ; but we had not yet met , when one day in October I was shooting down the river - side and the islands in the Findhorn , making out a bag of partridges laboriously . It was a windy day , and the birds going off wild ...
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... passed— ' Cum bene notum Porticus Agrippa , et via te conspexerit Appî , Ire tamen restat Numa quò devenit et Ancus . ' -Epist . i . 6 , 25 . This was perhaps too deep a moral for the graceful Satirist . Not indeed that the Appian was ...
... passed— ' Cum bene notum Porticus Agrippa , et via te conspexerit Appî , Ire tamen restat Numa quò devenit et Ancus . ' -Epist . i . 6 , 25 . This was perhaps too deep a moral for the graceful Satirist . Not indeed that the Appian was ...
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... passed over to a more rightful and far baser owner . Sextus Pompeius Justus , whose name appears on a stately tomb , was but a freedman of that great house . But near the fourth milestone was the scene of the luxurious life , of the ...
... passed over to a more rightful and far baser owner . Sextus Pompeius Justus , whose name appears on a stately tomb , was but a freedman of that great house . But near the fourth milestone was the scene of the luxurious life , of the ...
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... passed away . Christian brotherly love did not shame or restrain the fratri- cidal jealousy of Čaracalla , though he was said to have had a Christian nurse . There seem to have been some strictly local persecutions under Septimius ...
... passed away . Christian brotherly love did not shame or restrain the fratri- cidal jealousy of Čaracalla , though he was said to have had a Christian nurse . There seem to have been some strictly local persecutions under Septimius ...
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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.
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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.