The Quarterly Review, Volume 213William 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, 1910 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 71
Page 2
... light , people in this country would realise what a debt of gratitude they owed to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . These writers had in mind the indefatigable zeal shown by the Queen in transacting the business of State , her ...
... light , people in this country would realise what a debt of gratitude they owed to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . These writers had in mind the indefatigable zeal shown by the Queen in transacting the business of State , her ...
Page 19
... light . The boy of seventeen was passing through a phase quite unlike what the King afterwards became . Looking over some old letters , quite recently , from one of his tutors , the King found himself accused , when in his eighteenth ...
... light . The boy of seventeen was passing through a phase quite unlike what the King afterwards became . Looking over some old letters , quite recently , from one of his tutors , the King found himself accused , when in his eighteenth ...
Page 21
... light . The boy of seventeen was passing through a phase quite unlike what the King afterwards became . Looking over some old letters , quite recently , from one of his tutors , the King found himself accused , when in his eighteenth ...
... light . The boy of seventeen was passing through a phase quite unlike what the King afterwards became . Looking over some old letters , quite recently , from one of his tutors , the King found himself accused , when in his eighteenth ...
Page 23
... light one , do not unnecessarily break through our rule , knowing now the reasons upon which this rule depends . ' Show this letter to Mr Gibbs . ' OSBORNE , 14 , 1858. ' ' ( Signed ) ' Ever , ALBERT . Did any father write to his ...
... light one , do not unnecessarily break through our rule , knowing now the reasons upon which this rule depends . ' Show this letter to Mr Gibbs . ' OSBORNE , 14 , 1858. ' ' ( Signed ) ' Ever , ALBERT . Did any father write to his ...
Page 32
... light upon the value to Great Britain and her dominions over - sea of a monarchy thrice blessed in a Sovereign thus bred and trained , was the main intention of these pages . If the nation owes a debt of gratitude to Queen Victoria and ...
... light upon the value to Great Britain and her dominions over - sea of a monarchy thrice blessed in a Sovereign thus bred and trained , was the main intention of these pages . If the nation owes a debt of gratitude to Queen Victoria and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amritsar appears army beautiful Beckford Bill birds blue British Cabinet cancer cells century character Christian colours constitutional course Dante disease effect elected elements Emperor Empire England English fact feathers feeling foreign France French Germany Gnosticism Gobind Government Granth green Guido Guinizelli Guru Hinduism Hindus House of Commons House of Lords ideas important increase India influence interest King Edward Labour party less letters Liberal living London Lord Chamberlain Lower House matter means ment Mill Mill's mind Minister moral nation nature never Ollivier opinion organisation Panjab Parliament perhaps person pigment play poetry political portrait present Prince Consort Prince of Wales principle Prussia Queen question Ranjit Ranjit Singh realise reform religion religious result river Second Chamber Sikhism Sikhs Singh Socialism Socialists species Sutlej things thought tion Upper House Vathek whilst whole writes yellow
Popular passages
Page 231 - Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 80 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 87 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 418 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 85 - The Lady of Shalott. Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darken'd wholly, Turn'd to tower'd Camelot; For ere she reach'd upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott.
Page 84 - Brimming, and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and...
Page 36 - Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, ' ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Page 40 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 272 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.
Page 286 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...