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 10
... produced what in the phraseology of the present day is called , a great sensation , -it caused , says one of the Spanish bio- graphers , an universal commotion in the court and in the whole kingdom . Many ministers , knights and ...
... produced what in the phraseology of the present day is called , a great sensation , -it caused , says one of the Spanish bio- graphers , an universal commotion in the court and in the whole kingdom . Many ministers , knights and ...
Pàgina 21
... produced . One of those is the España Defendida , of Christoval Suarez de Figueroa , better known as one of the latest Spanish writers upon American history , but of little merit either as a poet or historian . The work of D. Jeronimo ...
... produced . One of those is the España Defendida , of Christoval Suarez de Figueroa , better known as one of the latest Spanish writers upon American history , but of little merit either as a poet or historian . The work of D. Jeronimo ...
Pàgina 31
... produced in heaven is de- scribed by the poet in a manner which he supposed to be sublime , and which , beyond a doubt , accorded with his notions of religious poetry : it could not be given in English without giving just offence to the ...
... produced in heaven is de- scribed by the poet in a manner which he supposed to be sublime , and which , beyond a doubt , accorded with his notions of religious poetry : it could not be given in English without giving just offence to the ...
Pàgina 34
... produced always as much meal as if there had been no expenditure on the way . His kettle had the convenient virtue of producing as much food as he chose to bestow in alms ; and he could with the same ease oblige Iban de Vargas his ...
... produced always as much meal as if there had been no expenditure on the way . His kettle had the convenient virtue of producing as much food as he chose to bestow in alms ; and he could with the same ease oblige Iban de Vargas his ...
Pàgina 37
... produced when his master was thirsty ; the prizes were , two silver candlesticks worth thirty ducats ; a gold em- blem of the Trinity , valued at a hundred and fifty reals ; and six ells of satin , three black and three lion - coloured ...
... produced when his master was thirsty ; the prizes were , two silver candlesticks worth thirty ducats ; a gold em- blem of the Trinity , valued at a hundred and fifty reals ; and six ells of satin , three black and three lion - coloured ...
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Passatges populars
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.