The Quarterly review, Volume 51Murray, 1834 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 23
... Perhaps ( as we lately had occasion to express our opinion ) Mr. Cary showed the soundest judgment in adopting the Miltonic measure - not as like , but as a satisfactory substitute for , the original . Certainly Mr. Wright's double ...
... Perhaps ( as we lately had occasion to express our opinion ) Mr. Cary showed the soundest judgment in adopting the Miltonic measure - not as like , but as a satisfactory substitute for , the original . Certainly Mr. Wright's double ...
Page 41
... Perhaps it may be said with confidence , that in Pindar the distinct thoughts bear a larger proportion to the number of words used , than in any other poet - with the exception of Shakspeare in his Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece ...
... Perhaps it may be said with confidence , that in Pindar the distinct thoughts bear a larger proportion to the number of words used , than in any other poet - with the exception of Shakspeare in his Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece ...
Page 43
... perhaps every one of Doric blood - partook in the glory of Diagoras . The Olympic wreath was , according to Cicero , little less honourable than a Roman triumph . The xauos , or festive procession homewards , was the inviolable object ...
... perhaps every one of Doric blood - partook in the glory of Diagoras . The Olympic wreath was , according to Cicero , little less honourable than a Roman triumph . The xauos , or festive procession homewards , was the inviolable object ...
Page 59
... perhaps a chemist of electro - chemistry ; if so , he leaves common chemical analysis to others ; between the mathematician and the chemist is to be interpolated a ' physicien ' ( we have no English name for him ) , who studies heat ...
... perhaps a chemist of electro - chemistry ; if so , he leaves common chemical analysis to others ; between the mathematician and the chemist is to be interpolated a ' physicien ' ( we have no English name for him ) , who studies heat ...
Page 90
... perhaps be thought that our friend should be classed ; and it cannot be doubted , that , in a more conspi- cuous field of action , he might have distinguished himself , and ob- tained a splendid fortune . But for distinction he never ...
... perhaps be thought that our friend should be classed ; and it cannot be doubted , that , in a more conspi- cuous field of action , he might have distinguished himself , and ob- tained a splendid fortune . But for distinction he never ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adam Clarke admirable appears Arnault Artevelde Baird beautiful believe better called character Church Clarke Colonel Wellesley command Conradin corn corn-laws Créqui death Dissenters Donnegan doubt Duke Duke of Bourbon Duke of Burgundy Duke of Swabia duty edition effect Elena emperor England English father favour feeling foreign Frederick French genius give Greek Gutzlaff Hohenstaufen honour instance interest king labour land language less lexicon look Lord Lord Byron Lord Chancellor Lord Wellesley manner manufactures means Memoirs mind ministers moral nation nature never night object observe opinion passage passed Passow perhaps persons Philip van Artevelde Pindar poet pope present principle produce question racter readers Renée de Froulay scene Schneider seems sense Seringapatam Sir Egerton spirit talents things thought tion trade whole word writer
Popular passages
Page 37 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 24 - Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 38 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 462 - There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 128 - Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way.
Page 39 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness till it smiled...
Page 303 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Page 76 - And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him...
Page 513 - ... the worst that can be said of it is, that it is supererogation — common sense may, according to their ideas, be pleaded against the practice, but surely not conscience.
Page 24 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger...