The Quarterly Review, Volume 71William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray (IV), William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1843 - English literature |
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... matter for the poet and the moralist , and the lover of nature , but has become an important subject of rural , and cottage , and even political economy itself . If West Indian crops fail , Brazilian slave - drivers turn sulky , we are ...
... matter for the poet and the moralist , and the lover of nature , but has become an important subject of rural , and cottage , and even political economy itself . If West Indian crops fail , Brazilian slave - drivers turn sulky , we are ...
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... matter - of - fact busi- ness , a likeness to the best and most rational of our manners and government , set about with motives so apparently identical with our own , that man's pride has only been able to escape from the ignominy of ...
... matter - of - fact busi- ness , a likeness to the best and most rational of our manners and government , set about with motives so apparently identical with our own , that man's pride has only been able to escape from the ignominy of ...
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... matter for their health . In the Isle of Wight the people have a notion that every bee goes down to sea to drink twice a - day ; ' and they are certainly seen to drink at the farm - yard pool— ' the gilded puddle That beasts would cough ...
... matter for their health . In the Isle of Wight the people have a notion that every bee goes down to sea to drink twice a - day ; ' and they are certainly seen to drink at the farm - yard pool— ' the gilded puddle That beasts would cough ...
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... matter alone they seem to be unthrift of their sweets , ' and to want that shrewdness which never else fails them , for they often , like certain over - careful housewives with their preserves , store away more than they can use , which ...
... matter alone they seem to be unthrift of their sweets , ' and to want that shrewdness which never else fails them , for they often , like certain over - careful housewives with their preserves , store away more than they can use , which ...
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... matter , and therefore sharp- eneth the stomachs of them which by reason thereof have little appetite : it purgeth those things which hurt the clearness of the eyes ; it nourisheth very much ; it breedeth good blood ; it stirreth up and ...
... matter , and therefore sharp- eneth the stomachs of them which by reason thereof have little appetite : it purgeth those things which hurt the clearness of the eyes ; it nourisheth very much ; it breedeth good blood ; it stirreth up and ...
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Page 54 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 469 - They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high — And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.
Page 52 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 470 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home; And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Page 469 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms Take thou in charge this day!" So he spake, and speaking, sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide.
Page 470 - And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow ; When round the lonely cottage Roars loud the tempest's din, And the good logs of Algidus Roar louder yet within...
Page 476 - Then leave the poor Plebeian his single tie to life — The sweet, sweet love of daughter, of sister, and of wife, The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures, The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours. Still let the maiden's beauty swell the father's breast with pride ; Still let the bridegroom's arms infold an unpolluted bride.
Page 475 - With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm, Home she went bounding from the school, nor dreamed of shame or harm...
Page 254 - They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger ; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Page 227 - ... keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope.