The Quarterly Review, Volume 71William 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, 1843 - English literature |
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... live and let live , ' taking something for herself , and yet leaving as much or more for the next comer , passing by the just - opening and faded flowers , and deigning to notice not even one out of five that are full- blown , combining ...
... live and let live , ' taking something for herself , and yet leaving as much or more for the next comer , passing by the just - opening and faded flowers , and deigning to notice not even one out of five that are full- blown , combining ...
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... lives and energies of an isolated clergy - a few forlorn hopes sent out without a commander to conquer the strongholds of heathenism . However , it is never too late to do well . The solemn ceremonial of the consecration of five bishops ...
... lives and energies of an isolated clergy - a few forlorn hopes sent out without a commander to conquer the strongholds of heathenism . However , it is never too late to do well . The solemn ceremonial of the consecration of five bishops ...
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... live - stock they possess , the Indians of America consider the same insect as the harbinger of the white man , and say that , in proportion as the bee advances , the red man and the buffalo retire . We have spoken of the possibility of ...
... live - stock they possess , the Indians of America consider the same insect as the harbinger of the white man , and say that , in proportion as the bee advances , the red man and the buffalo retire . We have spoken of the possibility of ...
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... lives for her . For they sting but once , and that sting is death to them ; Animasque in vulnere ponunt . ' How many a human sovereign has been left in his last hours by those who had basked in the sunshine of his power ! The bees teach ...
... lives for her . For they sting but once , and that sting is death to them ; Animasque in vulnere ponunt . ' How many a human sovereign has been left in his last hours by those who had basked in the sunshine of his power ! The bees teach ...
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... lives by stifling would not be so great a loss as it would at first appear . But their use the second year is not so much for gathering honey as for tending and nursing the young . The queen - bee , though she does not live for ever ...
... lives by stifling would not be so great a loss as it would at first appear . But their use the second year is not so much for gathering honey as for tending and nursing the young . The queen - bee , though she does not live for ever ...
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Page 54 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 469 - They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high — And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.
Page 52 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 470 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home; And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Page 469 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms Take thou in charge this day!" So he spake, and speaking, sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide.
Page 470 - And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow ; When round the lonely cottage Roars loud the tempest's din, And the good logs of Algidus Roar louder yet within...
Page 476 - Then leave the poor Plebeian his single tie to life — The sweet, sweet love of daughter, of sister, and of wife, The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures, The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours. Still let the maiden's beauty swell the father's breast with pride ; Still let the bridegroom's arms infold an unpolluted bride.
Page 475 - With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm, Home she went bounding from the school, nor dreamed of shame or harm...
Page 254 - They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger ; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Page 227 - ... keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope.