The Quarterly Review, Volum 18William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1818 |
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Pàgina 3
... whole lines adapted from their works . Strange and artificial as this mode of composing must ap- pear upon such a subject , the poem nevertheless is written with a power and passion which atone not only for this but for its hyper ...
... whole lines adapted from their works . Strange and artificial as this mode of composing must ap- pear upon such a subject , the poem nevertheless is written with a power and passion which atone not only for this but for its hyper ...
Pàgina 22
... whole is without regularity , order , purport or inte- rest of any kind . The Beauty of Angelica gives name to it , be- cause a certain king of Seville , who dies for grief when his wife has died of the same passion upon marrying him ...
... whole is without regularity , order , purport or inte- rest of any kind . The Beauty of Angelica gives name to it , be- cause a certain king of Seville , who dies for grief when his wife has died of the same passion upon marrying him ...
Pàgina 35
... whole credit of the cure . Such a cure at once established his reputation ; it did not become his Catholic Majesty to be un- grateful ; Isidro had done much for him , and happily it was still in his power to do something for Isidro ...
... whole credit of the cure . Such a cure at once established his reputation ; it did not become his Catholic Majesty to be un- grateful ; Isidro had done much for him , and happily it was still in his power to do something for Isidro ...
Pàgina 48
... whole population ) and the cattle to the woods ; and to leave to the Mahrattas neither forage , water , nor food . Such a scheme , Colonel Wilks observes , however efficacious it might prove against a regular army , is futile against ...
... whole population ) and the cattle to the woods ; and to leave to the Mahrattas neither forage , water , nor food . Such a scheme , Colonel Wilks observes , however efficacious it might prove against a regular army , is futile against ...
Pàgina 49
... whole of Hyder's army , consisting of two deep columns of in- fantry , and a body of about 12,000 horse , which moved with the utmost rapidity to envelope and destroy him . The English de- tachment perceived the overwhelming torrent ...
... whole of Hyder's army , consisting of two deep columns of in- fantry , and a body of about 12,000 horse , which moved with the utmost rapidity to envelope and destroy him . The English de- tachment perceived the overwhelming torrent ...
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Pàgina 457 - 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 463 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Pàgina 494 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Pàgina 381 - 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 graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Pàgina 331 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Pàgina 196 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
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 456 - ... 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...
Pàgina 381 - I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the...
Pàgina 377 - After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life ; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.