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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... give way when exposed to the rough sea of criticism . In the present instance the original treatise , in accordance with the terms of the submitted question , * was confined entirely to the dangerous classes among the lower orders of ...
... give way when exposed to the rough sea of criticism . In the present instance the original treatise , in accordance with the terms of the submitted question , * was confined entirely to the dangerous classes among the lower orders of ...
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... give a total , varying according to the season of the year , the activity of work , especially of build- ing , and other causes , of from 239,000 to 269,000 persons ; and on this number M. Frégier bases his calculations . We cannot but ...
... give a total , varying according to the season of the year , the activity of work , especially of build- ing , and other causes , of from 239,000 to 269,000 persons ; and on this number M. Frégier bases his calculations . We cannot but ...
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... give one - fourth ; the rest are from the pro- vinces : and the proportions which they furnish decrease as they are more remote , except in the case of some of the northern manufacturing districts , and certain garrison towns , the ...
... give one - fourth ; the rest are from the pro- vinces : and the proportions which they furnish decrease as they are more remote , except in the case of some of the northern manufacturing districts , and certain garrison towns , the ...
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... give his aid and to expose himself to danger , when acci- dents occur in the street , or casual tumults arise . There are no bounds to the sacrifices which they make to procure comforts for their wives and children when sick . The ...
... give his aid and to expose himself to danger , when acci- dents occur in the street , or casual tumults arise . There are no bounds to the sacrifices which they make to procure comforts for their wives and children when sick . The ...
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... give them the half ; whilst others retain to themselves the control of the whole of their earnings , and allow their ... gives way ; they settle themselves at table ; they breakfast ; they become heated with wine ; and not the third part ...
... give them the half ; whilst others retain to themselves the control of the whole of their earnings , and allow their ... gives way ; they settle themselves at table ; they breakfast ; they become heated with wine ; and not the third part ...
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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.