The Quarterly Review, Volumen37William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1828 |
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... instance , was pretty nearly modelled on the same plan . The sarcastic remark of a keen , but coarse and profligate writer , that the Adam and Eve of this new paradise came out of Newgate , ' is more strictly applicable to the first ...
... instance , was pretty nearly modelled on the same plan . The sarcastic remark of a keen , but coarse and profligate writer , that the Adam and Eve of this new paradise came out of Newgate , ' is more strictly applicable to the first ...
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... instance they are said to cover above an acre , to the depth of several feet . The whole district is bounded on the south by a harbour , into which ships of any tonnage may enter at all seasons , and anchor in safety ; it abounds with ...
... instance they are said to cover above an acre , to the depth of several feet . The whole district is bounded on the south by a harbour , into which ships of any tonnage may enter at all seasons , and anchor in safety ; it abounds with ...
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... instances of this bare - faced hypocrisy , he mentions that of one Breadman , who , on arriving at Sydney , was in the last stage of consumption , and unable to sit up without fainting . This expiring wretch , who grasped his bible to ...
... instances of this bare - faced hypocrisy , he mentions that of one Breadman , who , on arriving at Sydney , was in the last stage of consumption , and unable to sit up without fainting . This expiring wretch , who grasped his bible to ...
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... instances . ' Some who had friends doing well in New South Wales would in olden times procure themselves to be transported by way of having a free passage , in order to join them . Several went out with me on these very terms ; and ...
... instances . ' Some who had friends doing well in New South Wales would in olden times procure themselves to be transported by way of having a free passage , in order to join them . Several went out with me on these very terms ; and ...
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... instance , with 100 % . each in their pockets on arrival , willing and able to work , would soon form a comfortable asylum for themselves ; while the same persons , each acting separately with his own hundred pounds , would make but a ...
... instance , with 100 % . each in their pockets on arrival , willing and able to work , would soon form a comfortable asylum for themselves ; while the same persons , each acting separately with his own hundred pounds , would make but a ...
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Página 79 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Página 41 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Página 365 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 344 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Página 43 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 90 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 563 - ... would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like, or greater miseries upon...
Página 305 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Página 418 - I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly ; ' 'Twas one of my feats.' " ' Who shot the arrow? ' ' The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man), Or Southey or Barrow.
Página 262 - Union has just elapsed ; that of the declaration of our independence is at hand. The consummation of both was effected by this constitution. Since that period, a population of four millions has multiplied to twelve. A territory, bounded by the Mississippi, has been extended from sea to sea. New states have been admitted to the Union, in numbers nearly equal to those of the first confederation. Treaties of peace, amity and commerce, have been concluded with the principal dominions of the earth. The...