The Quarterly Review, Volume 7William 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, 1812 - English literature |
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... English flag ; but this blockade was removed in September following . Yet this just re- tribution was deemed a fit subject for American interference . In the same year the government found it expedient to declare the whole coast of ...
... English flag ; but this blockade was removed in September following . Yet this just re- tribution was deemed a fit subject for American interference . In the same year the government found it expedient to declare the whole coast of ...
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... English colonies , or countries occupied by the English troops , is good and lawful prize - these measures to cease to have effect with respect to those nations who shall have the firmness to compel the English govern- ment to respect ...
... English colonies , or countries occupied by the English troops , is good and lawful prize - these measures to cease to have effect with respect to those nations who shall have the firmness to compel the English govern- ment to respect ...
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... English shall revoke their orders in council , and renounce the new principles of blockade which they have attempted to establish , or that the United States shall cause their rights to be respected by the British . ' Mr. Madison has no ...
... English shall revoke their orders in council , and renounce the new principles of blockade which they have attempted to establish , or that the United States shall cause their rights to be respected by the British . ' Mr. Madison has no ...
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... instruction , as ancient as the navy itself , to the commanders of his Majesty's ships , to search * VOL . VII . NO . XIII . Ᏼ . search foreign vessels for English seamen , and to compel 1812 . 17 America - Orders in Council , & c .
... instruction , as ancient as the navy itself , to the commanders of his Majesty's ships , to search * VOL . VII . NO . XIII . Ᏼ . search foreign vessels for English seamen , and to compel 1812 . 17 America - Orders in Council , & c .
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... English seamen from an English ship , but lying within an American harbour , be- fore the President of the United States had time even to prefer a complaint of the trial of Captain Whitby , by court - martial , for the murder of an ...
... English seamen from an English ship , but lying within an American harbour , be- fore the President of the United States had time even to prefer a complaint of the trial of Captain Whitby , by court - martial , for the murder of an ...
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Page 188 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!
Page 195 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Page 291 - who should teach them all things, and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them...
Page 374 - OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 189 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled And still his...
Page 195 - Come — but molest not yon defenceless urn : Look on this spot — .a nation's sepulchre ! Abode of gods, whose shrines no longer burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — 'and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds ; Poor child of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds.
Page 373 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 192 - Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore ; Boast of the aged ! lesson of the young ! Which sages venerate and bards adore, As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
Page 183 - Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won and pass'd away — is this the whole ? A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Page 100 - But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned, Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh : but I spare you.