The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... class ; nor is its cultivation forbidden by an active military career . From the days of Xenophon and of Cæsar to those of Napier and of von Moltke , there have been frequent instances of distinguished soldiers who have wielded the pen ...
... class ; nor is its cultivation forbidden by an active military career . From the days of Xenophon and of Cæsar to those of Napier and of von Moltke , there have been frequent instances of distinguished soldiers who have wielded the pen ...
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... class has escaped , and the spell has fallen at one time and another upon kings and prophets , philosophers and poets , upon men of every calling , creed , and occupation , while the sympathies of men of science and learning have been ...
... class has escaped , and the spell has fallen at one time and another upon kings and prophets , philosophers and poets , upon men of every calling , creed , and occupation , while the sympathies of men of science and learning have been ...
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... class . Nor is this all . Enterprise , backed by knowledge and by money , constantly adds to our already bewildering mass of possessions ; and , as each year gives us something new and still more beautiful , we begin to realize at last ...
... class . Nor is this all . Enterprise , backed by knowledge and by money , constantly adds to our already bewildering mass of possessions ; and , as each year gives us something new and still more beautiful , we begin to realize at last ...
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... class , and the encouragement thus given cannot be unattended with results , especially where the pro- fessional and the amateur have equally a place . But encourage- ment does not begin and end with the shows . Our munici- palities ...
... class , and the encouragement thus given cannot be unattended with results , especially where the pro- fessional and the amateur have equally a place . But encourage- ment does not begin and end with the shows . Our munici- palities ...
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... class the birds among his enemies , and we ourselves often find our patience sorely tried by their depredations , yet if we are in the habit of listening to that chorus - the welcome to the year — which is only to be heard at dawn and ...
... class the birds among his enemies , and we ourselves often find our patience sorely tried by their depredations , yet if we are in the habit of listening to that chorus - the welcome to the year — which is only to be heard at dawn and ...
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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.