The Quarterly Review, Volum 216William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 |
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Pàgina 12
... letters ; and it may be doubted whether the division by Yea and Nay is not the embroidery of a later time . It seems much more likely that here we have a glimpse of an older procedure the voting by interests , town and country opposing ...
... letters ; and it may be doubted whether the division by Yea and Nay is not the embroidery of a later time . It seems much more likely that here we have a glimpse of an older procedure the voting by interests , town and country opposing ...
Pàgina 29
... Letters of George Sand , ' edited by her son Maurice , were a welcome and seemingly definite contribution towards our knowledge of her character and genius . But since the sixth and last volume , issued in 1884 , many more letters of ...
... Letters of George Sand , ' edited by her son Maurice , were a welcome and seemingly definite contribution towards our knowledge of her character and genius . But since the sixth and last volume , issued in 1884 , many more letters of ...
Pàgina 30
... letters or literature - her letters are literature - she expresses more than herself . The whole question is enlarged . She delivers credible testimony as to the state of mind and feeling in her times . Her love- adventures reveal the ...
... letters or literature - her letters are literature - she expresses more than herself . The whole question is enlarged . She delivers credible testimony as to the state of mind and feeling in her times . Her love- adventures reveal the ...
Pàgina 31
... letters of Buloz show that , under his guidance as editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes ' and friend of the two poets , she suppressed the one serious reproach she brought against herself . Paul de Musset replied in the bitter pamphlet ...
... letters of Buloz show that , under his guidance as editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes ' and friend of the two poets , she suppressed the one serious reproach she brought against herself . Paul de Musset replied in the bitter pamphlet ...
Pàgina 32
... letters were published ! What need of publication at all ? And everyone seemed to have access to them , if only he would take a side . There was irony in the reception of the fragments offered . As often , the larger knowledge did but ...
... letters were published ! What need of publication at all ? And everyone seemed to have access to them , if only he would take a side . There was irony in the reception of the fragments offered . As often , the larger knowledge did but ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself...
Pàgina 386 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Pàgina 294 - A POOR Relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain on your purse, a more intolerable dun upon your...
Pàgina 435 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Pàgina 334 - Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
Pàgina 327 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Pàgina 336 - That the elder ladies and children be content with a second bench at the ball, as being past or not come to perfection. 9. That the younger ladies take notice how many eyes observe them. NB This does not extend to the Have-at-alls. 10. That all whisperers of lies and scandal, be taken for their authors.
Pàgina 218 - For this purpose it is not absolutely necessary that the German fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest Sea Power, because, generally, a great Sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us.
Pàgina 417 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass...
Pàgina 272 - ... subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear from time to time to demand. That from the period of such declaration, it shall no longer be necessary to regulate the contribution of the two countries towards the future expenditure of the united kingdom...