The Quarterly Review, Volume 220

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William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero
John Murray, 1914 - English literature

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Page 412 - Ye brown o'erarching groves, That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! Oft at the blush of dawn I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.
Page 390 - There is, indeed, no transaction which offers stronger temptations to fallacy and sophistication than epistolary intercourse. In the eagerness of conversation, the first emotions of the mind often burst out before they are considered; in the tumult of...
Page 391 - A hunger seized my heart ; I read Of that glad year which once had been, In those fall'n leaves which kept their (green, The noble letters of the dead...
Page 269 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest...
Page 402 - Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
Page 152 - It drives one almost to despair of English literature when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of all Flesh making so little impression...
Page 396 - ... the passages which he thought exceptionable. He made several attempts to quote the poem, but always in a blundering, inaccurate manner. Burns bore all this for a good while with his usual good-natured forbearance, till at length, goaded by the fastidious criticisms and wretched quibblings of his opponent, he roused himself, and with an eye flashing contempt and indignation, and with great vehemence of gesticulation, he thus addressed the old critic : ' Sir, I now perceive a man may be an excellent...
Page 392 - Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire.
Page 396 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 537 - Kingdom, at the end of twenty-five years from the date of this our Charter, and at the end of every succeeding period of ten years, to add to, alter, or repeal any of the provisions of this our Charter, or to enact other provisions in substitution for or in addition to any of its existing provisions : Provided that the right and power thus reserved shall be exercised only in relation to so much of this our Charter as relates to administrative and public matters.

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