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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Page 69
... gold I. reticulata , and the blue , frail - looking I. stylosa ) , and the Chionodoxa , more brilliant than either the scilla or the gentian , may smile a welcome to us in the slant of the January sun : we may possess many of the new ...
... gold I. reticulata , and the blue , frail - looking I. stylosa ) , and the Chionodoxa , more brilliant than either the scilla or the gentian , may smile a welcome to us in the slant of the January sun : we may possess many of the new ...
Page 71
... gold ; but the gay festoons of the traveller's joy are bedraggled , and the sound in the air is of mourning : the true glory of the year has departed , and , if there is joy at all , it is born of peace , and accepts this death so that ...
... gold ; but the gay festoons of the traveller's joy are bedraggled , and the sound in the air is of mourning : the true glory of the year has departed , and , if there is joy at all , it is born of peace , and accepts this death so that ...
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... gold , which Macaulay found in that of Milton's prose . A more congenial subject is attended by vastly improved verse . Both the poems are pleasing also , in sentiment and in description . In the former the inability of Honorius to ...
... gold , which Macaulay found in that of Milton's prose . A more congenial subject is attended by vastly improved verse . Both the poems are pleasing also , in sentiment and in description . In the former the inability of Honorius to ...
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... gold and purple . So excellent was the workmanship , that you might fancy you heard the lapping of the seaweed upon the rocks , and the hoarse murmur of the wave creeping over the thirsty sand . ' The tropic , temperate , and arctic ...
... gold and purple . So excellent was the workmanship , that you might fancy you heard the lapping of the seaweed upon the rocks , and the hoarse murmur of the wave creeping over the thirsty sand . ' The tropic , temperate , and arctic ...
Page 152
... gold , and Ocean jewels ; where she crawled , roses and lilies bloomed , and , where she slept , violets sprang , images of the purple bed of empire . Such Such praises remind the reader of Lucan , in his 152 Claudian .
... gold , and Ocean jewels ; where she crawled , roses and lilies bloomed , and , where she slept , violets sprang , images of the purple bed of empire . Such Such praises remind the reader of Lucan , in his 152 Claudian .
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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.