The London Quarterly Review, Volum 18Theodore Foster, 1818 |
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Pàgina 16
... fact in Spanish litera- ture . Anfriso , a young shepherd of such noble extraction that he believes Jupiter to have been his grandfather , loves and is beloved by Belisarda ; but the parents of the damsel are in treaty for marrying her ...
... fact in Spanish litera- ture . Anfriso , a young shepherd of such noble extraction that he believes Jupiter to have been his grandfather , loves and is beloved by Belisarda ; but the parents of the damsel are in treaty for marrying her ...
Pàgina 18
... fact that Lopez de Vega was at one time in his service , strongly support the inference to which they lead . That Alva , the bloody and inexor- able Alva , should in his old age delight in having the loves of his youth recorded in ...
... fact that Lopez de Vega was at one time in his service , strongly support the inference to which they lead . That Alva , the bloody and inexor- able Alva , should in his old age delight in having the loves of his youth recorded in ...
Pàgina 19
... fact in the history of this personage may be mentioned . During the last few weeks of his life Alva received no other sus- tenance than from the breast of a woman ; Alva , who had made so many a woman childless , and under whose ...
... fact in the history of this personage may be mentioned . During the last few weeks of his life Alva received no other sus- tenance than from the breast of a woman ; Alva , who had made so many a woman childless , and under whose ...
Pàgina 32
... fact that a complimentary sonnet of his is prefixed to the Dragontea will be a decisive proof that he could never afterwards have satirised that poem . He has also complimented Lopez de Vega , in brief but strong terms , in his Viage ...
... fact that a complimentary sonnet of his is prefixed to the Dragontea will be a decisive proof that he could never afterwards have satirised that poem . He has also complimented Lopez de Vega , in brief but strong terms , in his Viage ...
Pàgina 48
... fact , Hyder was soon convinced of his mistake by the surrender of the fort and district of Sera ; and he was wise enough to have immediate recourse to negotiation , and to purchase the retreat of the Mahrattas for thirty - five lacs of ...
... fact , Hyder was soon convinced of his mistake by the surrender of the fort and district of Sera ; and he was wise enough to have immediate recourse to negotiation , and to purchase the retreat of the Mahrattas for thirty - five lacs of ...
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Pàgina 383 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Pàgina 459 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Pàgina 383 - He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear ; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed downstairs.
Pàgina 59 - The defeat of many Baillies and Braithwaites will not destroy them. I can ruin their resources by land, but I cannot dry up the sea ; and I must be first weary of a war in which I can gain nothing by fighting.
Pàgina 330 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Pàgina 382 - How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
Pàgina 458 - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry, and that fine sense of their undefinable relation to mental emotion, which is its essence and vivifying Soul, and which...
Pàgina 234 - I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a syllable on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it...
Pàgina 314 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Pàgina 382 - Beautiful! -Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.