The Quarterly Review, Volume 122William 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, 1867 |
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... hand finery of a lady's maid : — ' With bits of tarnished lace and worthless frippery , he assumes a sweeping Oriental costume . . . He is swelling and turgid , everlastingly aiming to be greater than his subject , filling his fancy ...
... hand finery of a lady's maid : — ' With bits of tarnished lace and worthless frippery , he assumes a sweeping Oriental costume . . . He is swelling and turgid , everlastingly aiming to be greater than his subject , filling his fancy ...
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... hand of ordinary strength could hew out of the unransacked mines of our native language . Nor is it without a melancholy and softening interest that we detect detect sometimes , amidst the very lucubrations that most dis- Charles Lamb ...
... hand of ordinary strength could hew out of the unransacked mines of our native language . Nor is it without a melancholy and softening interest that we detect detect sometimes , amidst the very lucubrations that most dis- Charles Lamb ...
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... hand , when as an essayist on contemporaneous manners , Hazlitt writes from his own personal experience as observer , and in good humour with the subject selected , he can give grace and dignity to things common- place or coarse . Of ...
... hand , when as an essayist on contemporaneous manners , Hazlitt writes from his own personal experience as observer , and in good humour with the subject selected , he can give grace and dignity to things common- place or coarse . Of ...
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... hand for the filling up of any large canvas , and in such attempts he lost his own peculiar merits , which consist in smoothness of tone and delicacy of finish . He tells a short story of mingled fancy and sentiment with much grace and ...
... hand for the filling up of any large canvas , and in such attempts he lost his own peculiar merits , which consist in smoothness of tone and delicacy of finish . He tells a short story of mingled fancy and sentiment with much grace and ...
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... hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp . She is at present in a mad- house , from whence I fear she must be moved to an hospital . ' His father was imbecile . He alone takes care of the old man ; when the old man ...
... hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp . She is at present in a mad- house , from whence I fear she must be moved to an hospital . ' His father was imbecile . He alone takes care of the old man ; when the old man ...
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Page 82 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Page 443 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 235 - tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; One good-sized diamond in a pin — Some, not so large, in rings — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire (Good, heavy silks are never dear); I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.
Page 234 - That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen!
Page 229 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Page 63 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 64 - I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
Page 76 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Page 187 - ... shall suffer from henceforth no torches nor candles, tapers, or images of wax, to be set afore any image or picture, but only two lights upon the high altar, before the sacrament, which for the signification that Christ is the very true light of the world, they shall suffer to remain still...
Page 64 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back...