The Quarterly Review, Volume 12William 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, 1815 |
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... better than a representation of fairy land , and did not obtain the credit which it was now proved to have merited . Henceforward the gulph of Carpentaria will take its station amongst the conspicuous parts of the globe in a decided cha ...
... better than a representation of fairy land , and did not obtain the credit which it was now proved to have merited . Henceforward the gulph of Carpentaria will take its station amongst the conspicuous parts of the globe in a decided cha ...
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... better criterion can be assumed of the difficulties that lie in the way , than the fact that we have now had possession , in the shape of a colony , for the last five and twenty years , of the best part of the coast , yet know very ...
... better criterion can be assumed of the difficulties that lie in the way , than the fact that we have now had possession , in the shape of a colony , for the last five and twenty years , of the best part of the coast , yet know very ...
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... better kind of houses ; change of place would also be less necessary , as the net gives a more certain and plentiful supply of fish . On the other hand , the native of Port Jackson , who depends upon his single arm and his spear for his ...
... better kind of houses ; change of place would also be less necessary , as the net gives a more certain and plentiful supply of fish . On the other hand , the native of Port Jackson , who depends upon his single arm and his spear for his ...
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... better condition . The deaths on the passage on board these three ships were 261 men , 11 women , and two children . The convicts , it appeared , had been victualled and sent out by contract , at so much per head , not for those ...
... better condition . The deaths on the passage on board these three ships were 261 men , 11 women , and two children . The convicts , it appeared , had been victualled and sent out by contract , at so much per head , not for those ...
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... better times succeeded . There were no natives on Norfolk island , and those on New South Wales were so few in number , and so little united among themselves , that , although frequently trouble- some , they occasioned little or no ...
... better times succeeded . There were no natives on Norfolk island , and those on New South Wales were so few in number , and so little united among themselves , that , although frequently trouble- some , they occasioned little or no ...
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Page 503 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan. — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this...
Page 87 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 73 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 106 - Made many a fond enquiry ; and when they, Whose presence gave no comfort, were gone by, Her heart was still more sad. And by yon gate, That bars the traveller's road, she often stood, And when a stranger horseman came, the latch Would lift, and in his face look wistfully : Most happy, if, from aught discovered there Of tender feeling, she might dare repeat The same sad question.
Page 507 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 105 - Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene. Like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay from guilt ; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair.
Page 105 - Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene.
Page 103 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Page 94 - Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens,...