The Quarterly Review, Volume 218William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 - English literature |
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... give an idea , sufficient for our purpose , of the author's genius ; they have a certain unity and continuity ; and they belong to the years immediately following the writer's recovery after a period of great depression and mental ...
... give an idea , sufficient for our purpose , of the author's genius ; they have a certain unity and continuity ; and they belong to the years immediately following the writer's recovery after a period of great depression and mental ...
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... gives to the least diffuse of poets over one who is most so . In the realm also of lesser ethics , the undeniable self - sufficiency and occasional want of consideration for others shown by Wordsworth , and his extraordinary complacency ...
... gives to the least diffuse of poets over one who is most so . In the realm also of lesser ethics , the undeniable self - sufficiency and occasional want of consideration for others shown by Wordsworth , and his extraordinary complacency ...
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... give the poem which had its origin in the circumstances just told , rendered in the exact form and measure of the original . We also append , for comparison , the passage in Mill's ' Autobiography which relates his similar experience ...
... give the poem which had its origin in the circumstances just told , rendered in the exact form and measure of the original . We also append , for comparison , the passage in Mill's ' Autobiography which relates his similar experience ...
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... gives back the tears to my eyes ? Why hastens the earth in new guise Before me thus changed to appear ? Perhaps , O poor heart , hope relenting With a smile will turn even to thee . Alas ! never more shall I see Smile that my grief can ...
... gives back the tears to my eyes ? Why hastens the earth in new guise Before me thus changed to appear ? Perhaps , O poor heart , hope relenting With a smile will turn even to thee . Alas ! never more shall I see Smile that my grief can ...
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... give me some pleasure , that I could again find enjoyment , not intense , but sufficient for cheerfulness , in sunshine and sky , ‡ in books , in conversation , in public affairs . Thus the cloud gradually drew off , and , though I had ...
... give me some pleasure , that I could again find enjoyment , not intense , but sufficient for cheerfulness , in sunshine and sky , ‡ in books , in conversation , in public affairs . Thus the cloud gradually drew off , and , though I had ...
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Page 52 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Page 10 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Page 446 - As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight line drawn across the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles.
Page 446 - Convention, the object of which is to regulate the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters, shall apply to the subjects of the High Contracting Parties.
Page 64 - God send you through your law-suit, and your reference. And remember that riches are nine parts in ten of all that is good in life, and health is the tenth ; drinking coffee comes long after, and yet it is the eleventh ; but without the two former you cannot drink it right...
Page 519 - Versailles • gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers.
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Page 106 - I faced old James and all his court the other day at St. Cloud. Vive Guillaume ! You never saw such a strange figure as the old bully is, [James II.] lean, worn, and rivelled, not unlike Neale, the projector. The queen looks very melancholy, but otherwise well enough : their equipages are all very ragged and contemptible.
Page 376 - Pray now, buy some : I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders