The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 123A. Constable, 1866 |
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Page 56
... direct the councils of kings , and to leave their traces on the fate of empires . Yet , as we have said , we do not think that Mazarin as a statesman de- serves the unqualified and extreme praise which M. Cousin is inclined to give him ...
... direct the councils of kings , and to leave their traces on the fate of empires . Yet , as we have said , we do not think that Mazarin as a statesman de- serves the unqualified and extreme praise which M. Cousin is inclined to give him ...
Page 72
... direct personal responsibility ; and all this in constant disregard of that precaution which the trustees very wisely established against themselves , by throwing the ordinary business of the Museum upon a portion of their number ...
... direct personal responsibility ; and all this in constant disregard of that precaution which the trustees very wisely established against themselves , by throwing the ordinary business of the Museum upon a portion of their number ...
Page 80
... direct parliamentary responsibility , and the management is in the hands of a board , as at the British Museum , the National Gallery , the National Portrait Gallery , and Patent ' Museum , confusion , discord , languor , incompe- tency ...
... direct parliamentary responsibility , and the management is in the hands of a board , as at the British Museum , the National Gallery , the National Portrait Gallery , and Patent ' Museum , confusion , discord , languor , incompe- tency ...
Page 100
... direct copy , as far as circumstances allowed , of that harassing system of the American riflemen which their best officers had seen employed with such success 6 in the campaigns of Washington and Lafayette . Thus were 100 Jan. Recent ...
... direct copy , as far as circumstances allowed , of that harassing system of the American riflemen which their best officers had seen employed with such success 6 in the campaigns of Washington and Lafayette . Thus were 100 Jan. Recent ...
Page 107
... direct attacks , for the employment of sheer strength , and a certain contempt for the assistance of art and combinations requiring ' mental effort . He gained the victory , but at the cost of ' immense losses and with insignificant ...
... direct attacks , for the employment of sheer strength , and a certain contempt for the assistance of art and combinations requiring ' mental effort . He gained the victory , but at the cost of ' immense losses and with insignificant ...
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Page 177 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness: She shall be (But few now living can behold that goodness,) A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed...
Page 168 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 381 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 367 - Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Page 368 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 371 - We will return no more;" And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Page 380 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 381 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 80 - Of these the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons are termed the Principal Trustees.
Page 152 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? Some say, the bee stings ; but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.