The Quarterly Review, Volume 70William 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, 1842 |
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... Duke of Rutland , Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland , 1781-1787 . ( Pri- vately printed . ) Ι . — 1 . Αἰσχύλου Χοηφόροι . The Choëphorce of Æschylus , with Notes critical , explanatory , and philological . By the Rev. T. W. Peile , M.A. ...
... Duke of Rutland , Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland , 1781-1787 . ( Pri- vately printed . ) Ι . — 1 . Αἰσχύλου Χοηφόροι . The Choëphorce of Æschylus , with Notes critical , explanatory , and philological . By the Rev. T. W. Peile , M.A. ...
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... Duke d'Enghien ; but he himself maintained to the last that his voice had been invariably for open war , and that his plan was to attack the First Consul's guard of thirty with an equal number of his followers , and decide the quarrel ...
... Duke d'Enghien ; but he himself maintained to the last that his voice had been invariably for open war , and that his plan was to attack the First Consul's guard of thirty with an equal number of his followers , and decide the quarrel ...
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... Duke of Wellington was thrown some years ago by the bequest of a thousand pounds to the man who showed most bravery at Waterloo , whom His Grace was consequently required to name . The royalist officer despatched to Vannes for the ...
... Duke of Wellington was thrown some years ago by the bequest of a thousand pounds to the man who showed most bravery at Waterloo , whom His Grace was consequently required to name . The royalist officer despatched to Vannes for the ...
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... Duke of Buccleuch than his grace com- manded its utter abolition in all his collieries ; and the same course was immediately followed by the family of Dundas of Arniston , and others of his neighbours : - 6 Until the last eight months ...
... Duke of Buccleuch than his grace com- manded its utter abolition in all his collieries ; and the same course was immediately followed by the family of Dundas of Arniston , and others of his neighbours : - 6 Until the last eight months ...
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... Duke of Buccleuch's collieries : - ' I would be against the interference of legislature in any case but where it is absolutely necessary , but here I conceive it to be their impe- rative duty . If a measure were passed enacting that no ...
... Duke of Buccleuch's collieries : - ' I would be against the interference of legislature in any case but where it is absolutely necessary , but here I conceive it to be their impe- rative duty . If a measure were passed enacting that no ...
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Page 243 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 410 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 287 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 410 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Page 409 - On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light, As I have seen the rosy red flushing in the northern night. And she turn'd — her bosom shaken with a sudden storm of sighs — All the spirit deeply dawning in the dark of hazel eyes — Saying, ' I have hid my feelings, fearing they should do me wrong ; ' Saying, ' Dost thou love me, cousin ? ' weeping,
Page 220 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 409 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, 'My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 405 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 405 - DORA. WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora. William was his son, And she his niece. He often look'd at them. And often thought,
Page 328 - ... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit ; and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by, the gratification of our passions, or attainment of our wishes.