The Quarterly Review, Volum 245William 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, 1925 |
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Pàgina 5
... probably would not believe if they did know , how boyishly he enjoyed practical jokes of the harmless and amusing variety . I remember one evening , not long after I entered Parliament , when the House of Commons was indulging in an all ...
... probably would not believe if they did know , how boyishly he enjoyed practical jokes of the harmless and amusing variety . I remember one evening , not long after I entered Parliament , when the House of Commons was indulging in an all ...
Pàgina 9
... probably did the thing himself . Until he went to India he had no private secretary or short - hand writer ; he was in- capable of dictating a letter or an article . He was mistrustful of confiding fully in his subordinates , seem- ing ...
... probably did the thing himself . Until he went to India he had no private secretary or short - hand writer ; he was in- capable of dictating a letter or an article . He was mistrustful of confiding fully in his subordinates , seem- ing ...
Pàgina 14
... probably become mixed in his mind and , if the cause be a good one , it is the height of pharisaical folly to quarrel with him because he desires that his authority and renown shall receive some of the lustre of a far shining triumph ...
... probably become mixed in his mind and , if the cause be a good one , it is the height of pharisaical folly to quarrel with him because he desires that his authority and renown shall receive some of the lustre of a far shining triumph ...
Pàgina 25
... probably known only to those who have attained that dizzy height ) . We are far from saying that Tom did not pick up some wisps of priggery during his career , and that an emphasis some- what too laudatory for our taste is not laid upon ...
... probably known only to those who have attained that dizzy height ) . We are far from saying that Tom did not pick up some wisps of priggery during his career , and that an emphasis some- what too laudatory for our taste is not laid upon ...
Pàgina 26
... probably be written by such a mother , but unfortunately she would not be qualified on the former count , for she would know only by hearsay of the facts , essential or non - essential , of school life . We must , however , come to ...
... probably be written by such a mother , but unfortunately she would not be qualified on the former count , for she would know only by hearsay of the facts , essential or non - essential , of school life . We must , however , come to ...
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Pàgina 269 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Pàgina 228 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Nature's sea. The work he did we ought t...
Pàgina 225 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Pàgina 268 - The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain, I think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Pàgina 235 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Pàgina 173 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Pàgina 66 - Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Pàgina 222 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Pàgina 269 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Pàgina 132 - Lord for counsel and guidance in this, in itself, and to me so important affair, I felt a word sweetly arise in me, as if I had heard a voice, which said,