The Quarterly Review, Volume 117John Murray, 1865 - English literature |
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... Houses of Parliament . 3. Treaty of Paris , 1856 . 4. The Condition of Turkey and her Dependencies . Speech in the House of Commons , May 29 , 1863. By A. H. Layard , Esq . , M.P. VIII . - 1 . Anthologia Græca , ex Recensione Brunckii ...
... Houses of Parliament . 3. Treaty of Paris , 1856 . 4. The Condition of Turkey and her Dependencies . Speech in the House of Commons , May 29 , 1863. By A. H. Layard , Esq . , M.P. VIII . - 1 . Anthologia Græca , ex Recensione Brunckii ...
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... house . The volume is amongst the rarissima of collectors , vying in scarcity with some of the Elizabethan books of verse ; nor does the resemblance stop here . For this singular genius , original in everything , had , from his youth ...
... house . The volume is amongst the rarissima of collectors , vying in scarcity with some of the Elizabethan books of verse ; nor does the resemblance stop here . For this singular genius , original in everything , had , from his youth ...
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... house can ever please me so well , nor shall I ever be persuaded , I believe , that it can be improved either in ... houses . My wife and sister are both well , courting Neptune for an embrace . Our journey was very pleasant ; and though ...
... house can ever please me so well , nor shall I ever be persuaded , I believe , that it can be improved either in ... houses . My wife and sister are both well , courting Neptune for an embrace . Our journey was very pleasant ; and though ...
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... House of the ' Interpreter , ' as the younger circle of friends named one who , certainly , himself was in no small need of interpretation , was the scene of a calm and happy old age , such as might well be called the Euthanasia of a ...
... House of the ' Interpreter , ' as the younger circle of friends named one who , certainly , himself was in no small need of interpretation , was the scene of a calm and happy old age , such as might well be called the Euthanasia of a ...
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... house , and the rapacious animal is excluded . I saw this shellfish first at the island of Milo , and found such a little crab in all I opened . I wondered not a little what was her business there ; but when I came here ( Smyrna ) , I ...
... house , and the rapacious animal is excluded . I saw this shellfish first at the island of Milo , and found such a little crab in all I opened . I wondered not a little what was her business there ; but when I came here ( Smyrna ) , I ...
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Page 26 - I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Page 26 - I hear! —But there's a Tree, of many, one, A single Field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Page 9 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 11 - SONG WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of the night arise; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.
Page 217 - Sweet, so would I : Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, 'till it be morrow. [Exit. Rom. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast ! — 'Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest ! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell; His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
Page 454 - Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 9 - ... fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth; Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea, Wandering in many a coral grove; Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few.
Page 452 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words and no other : — " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intituled the Book of Common Prayer...
Page 12 - I HAVE no name ; I am but two days old.' What shall I call thee? ' I happy am, Joy is my name.' Sweet joy befall thee ! Pretty joy ! Sweet joy, but two days old.
Page 23 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat "like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.