The Quarterly Review, Volume 183William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... Names of British Plants . By R. C. A. Prior , M.D. Second Edition . London , 1870- And other Works . · XI . - 1 . Report of Select Committee on Irish Industries . London , 1885 . 2. Report of Royal Commissioners on Technical Educa- tion ...
... Names of British Plants . By R. C. A. Prior , M.D. Second Edition . London , 1870- And other Works . · XI . - 1 . Report of Select Committee on Irish Industries . London , 1885 . 2. Report of Royal Commissioners on Technical Educa- tion ...
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... name of ' my good friend Mr. Evelyn , ' ' a most excellent humoured man , and mighty knowing , ' ' a most ingenious and worthy person , and the more I know him the more I love him , ' recurs repeatedly in the pages of Pepys . Sometimes ...
... name of ' my good friend Mr. Evelyn , ' ' a most excellent humoured man , and mighty knowing , ' ' a most ingenious and worthy person , and the more I know him the more I love him , ' recurs repeatedly in the pages of Pepys . Sometimes ...
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... names , when her lord and master was put out , or in a suspicious frame of mind . That penniless young beauty ... name . ' One 6 One of his letters ( from an old crony The Diarists of the Restoration . 15.
... names , when her lord and master was put out , or in a suspicious frame of mind . That penniless young beauty ... name . ' One 6 One of his letters ( from an old crony The Diarists of the Restoration . 15.
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... name of a good - natured man , ' and avows his great object to be to increase his ' good name and esteem in the world , and get money , which sweetens all things . ' With this end , finding excessive convivi- ality and playgoing ...
... name of a good - natured man , ' and avows his great object to be to increase his ' good name and esteem in the world , and get money , which sweetens all things . ' With this end , finding excessive convivi- ality and playgoing ...
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... name of her ' poor Sam ' upon her lips , but this outburst of feeling is not untouched by his inherent selfishness . He was fond of his wife , proud of her gentle birth and good looks , and had ' mighty content ' in her when he was not ...
... name of her ' poor Sam ' upon her lips , but this outburst of feeling is not untouched by his inherent selfishness . He was fond of his wife , proud of her gentle birth and good looks , and had ' mighty content ' in her when he was not ...
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Page 250 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 120 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 514 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel amongst us all, masters and scholars ; and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think...
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Page 137 - We men may say more, swear more : but, indeed, Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love. Duke. But died thy sister of her love, my boy ? Vio. I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too ; — and yet I know not : — Sir, shall I to this lady ? Duke.
Page 247 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Page 249 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another Countrey, as he said, Bore a bright golden flowre, but not in this soyl: Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull...
Page 312 - With rod and line I sued the sport Which that sweet season gave, And, to the church-yard come, stopped short Beside my daughter's grave. Nine summers had she scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang; — she would have been A very nightingale. Six feet in earth my Emma lay; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before.
Page 11 - I went to visit Mr. Pepys at Clapham, where he has a very noble and wonderfully well-furnished house, especially with Indian and Chinese curiosities. The offices and gardens well accommodated for pleasure and retirement.
Page 324 - Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely on the weight and force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him.