The Quarterly Review, Volume 49William 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, 1833 - English literature |
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... importance ; as all parties are agreed that the Mémoires were not written by old Le Vasseur , as they affect to be , but that the original draft was compiled by the son , and that even that portion was all re - written , and three ...
... importance ; as all parties are agreed that the Mémoires were not written by old Le Vasseur , as they affect to be , but that the original draft was compiled by the son , and that even that portion was all re - written , and three ...
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... importance , as far as the Convention was concerned , to Messrs . Hume and O'Connell , as Vergniaud was superior in eloquence to Lord Althorp . And yet these able leaders of opposition , these practised declaimers against corruption ...
... importance , as far as the Convention was concerned , to Messrs . Hume and O'Connell , as Vergniaud was superior in eloquence to Lord Althorp . And yet these able leaders of opposition , these practised declaimers against corruption ...
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... important to ascertain , what would have been his conduct or his fate at this crisis - whether he would have drunk the hemlock with Robespierre , St. Just , and Couthon ; have talked of doing so with David of the blood - steeped brush ...
... important to ascertain , what would have been his conduct or his fate at this crisis - whether he would have drunk the hemlock with Robespierre , St. Just , and Couthon ; have talked of doing so with David of the blood - steeped brush ...
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... important subjects in history . It has been my good fortune to have had opportunities of examining the treasures of ecclesiastical history , in libraries rich in such stores ; and the more I have read , the more I have felt convinced ...
... important subjects in history . It has been my good fortune to have had opportunities of examining the treasures of ecclesiastical history , in libraries rich in such stores ; and the more I have read , the more I have felt convinced ...
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... importance only , and which , without being directly ne- cessary to salvation , may excite suspicion that some schism is in- tended . ' Were all of his profession to feel and think thus , and to act accordingly , there would soon be no ...
... importance only , and which , without being directly ne- cessary to salvation , may excite suspicion that some schism is in- tended . ' Were all of his profession to feel and think thus , and to act accordingly , there would soon be no ...
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Page 8 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 187 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Page 8 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor- victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 191 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 188 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 191 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? O, thou wilt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! — Pray you, undo this button: Thank you, sir. — Do you see this? Look on her, — look, — her lips, — Look there, look there!
Page 175 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 448 - By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate• at once my lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day We read no more.
Page 443 - Quando fui desto innanzi la dimane, Pianger senti' fra '1 sonno i miei figliuoli, Ch' erano meco, e dimandar del pane.
Page 180 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.