The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... publication of Napier's brilliant History , the reproach remained . English writers had been content with mere narrative . Of original thought thought or military insight , there were few signs . 6 Sir Edward Hamley .
... publication of Napier's brilliant History , the reproach remained . English writers had been content with mere narrative . Of original thought thought or military insight , there were few signs . 6 Sir Edward Hamley .
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... English language , undertaking and nearly completing the translation of Gibbon's twelve volumes . His first experience of war was in the East , where he witnessed the defeat of Hafiz Pasha's army in Asia Minor . His ' Letters from the ...
... English language , undertaking and nearly completing the translation of Gibbon's twelve volumes . His first experience of war was in the East , where he witnessed the defeat of Hafiz Pasha's army in Asia Minor . His ' Letters from the ...
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... English landscape - a river or a lake - were thrown open to the garden , and the discovery of the uses of the ha - ha , cunningly devised , did away with many of the hard lines , the boundaries and conventionalities to which people had ...
... English landscape - a river or a lake - were thrown open to the garden , and the discovery of the uses of the ha - ha , cunningly devised , did away with many of the hard lines , the boundaries and conventionalities to which people had ...
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... English working class saw no injustice in being asked to contribute directly towards the education of their children . Its introduc- tion was due to the apprehension of those who feared that , unless the party took the matter in hand ...
... English working class saw no injustice in being asked to contribute directly towards the education of their children . Its introduc- tion was due to the apprehension of those who feared that , unless the party took the matter in hand ...
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... English character fails , or threatens to fail , only when it falls under the influence of political and democratic sentiment . We cannot accept so unre- servedly a reference to the alleged triumphs of municipal and local patriotism ...
... English character fails , or threatens to fail , only when it falls under the influence of political and democratic sentiment . We cannot accept so unre- servedly a reference to the alleged triumphs of municipal and local patriotism ...
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Page 306 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Page 305 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
Page 341 - Parliament that the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England...
Page 426 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 410 - THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 417 - LIS, the point upwards: next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Page 406 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 168 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not; but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile: all else deep snow and ice...
Page 436 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Page 316 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.