The Quarterly Review, Volume 245William 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, 1925 - English literature |
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... passed away , how difficult a task it would be to write an adequate Biography of him ; almost impossible for one who knew him well , and quite beyond the power of even the most gifted writer who had never met him . For he was a man of ...
... passed away , how difficult a task it would be to write an adequate Biography of him ; almost impossible for one who knew him well , and quite beyond the power of even the most gifted writer who had never met him . For he was a man of ...
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... passing of the hours meant nothing to him . He did not know what punctuality meant ; people who did not know his methods used to put this down to lack of consideration for others , to indifference to the accepted conventions of Society ...
... passing of the hours meant nothing to him . He did not know what punctuality meant ; people who did not know his methods used to put this down to lack of consideration for others , to indifference to the accepted conventions of Society ...
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... passed , then we were both to get our " first . " If he did not , we were both to lose . The verdict was negative , and by his unconscious axe my head fell . ' In a scholar of Curzon's attainments it is no wonder that he should have ...
... passed , then we were both to get our " first . " If he did not , we were both to lose . The verdict was negative , and by his unconscious axe my head fell . ' In a scholar of Curzon's attainments it is no wonder that he should have ...
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... passed almost daily between them , dis- cussing the many complex problems that were constantly arising , in connexion with or apart from the Peace Con- ference . It is not difficult to believe that both statesmen exchanged views and ...
... passed almost daily between them , dis- cussing the many complex problems that were constantly arising , in connexion with or apart from the Peace Con- ference . It is not difficult to believe that both statesmen exchanged views and ...
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... passed over and must over- whelm , in so grave a choice , not only all rivals but also such personal prejudices as might be harboured against him . But it was not to be ; it was he who was over- whelmed , when he learned the decision of ...
... passed over and must over- whelm , in so grave a choice , not only all rivals but also such personal prejudices as might be harboured against him . But it was not to be ; it was he who was over- whelmed , when he learned the decision of ...
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Page 269 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Page 228 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Nature's sea. The work he did we ought t...
Page 225 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Page 268 - The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain, I think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Page 235 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Page 173 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 66 - Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 222 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Page 269 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Page 132 - Lord for counsel and guidance in this, in itself, and to me so important affair, I felt a word sweetly arise in me, as if I had heard a voice, which said,