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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... France , & c . Avec des Additions relatives à l'Astronomie Nautique , par M. de Rossel , ancien Capitaine de Vaisseau , Rédac- teur et Co - opérateur du Voyage de d'Entrecasteaux . Seconde Edition , destinée à l'Enseignement dans les ...
... France , & c . Avec des Additions relatives à l'Astronomie Nautique , par M. de Rossel , ancien Capitaine de Vaisseau , Rédac- teur et Co - opérateur du Voyage de d'Entrecasteaux . Seconde Edition , destinée à l'Enseignement dans les ...
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... France to dis- unite and to array against each other . we Of the origin of this spirit in the American government , shall say a few words hereafter . At present it will be our business to examine into the truth of the allegations of the ...
... France to dis- unite and to array against each other . we Of the origin of this spirit in the American government , shall say a few words hereafter . At present it will be our business to examine into the truth of the allegations of the ...
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... France , availing herself of the proffers made equally to her and her enemy by the non - importation law of May , 1810 , announced the repeal , on the 1st of the follow- ing November , of the decrees of Berlin and Milan ; ' and that in ...
... France , availing herself of the proffers made equally to her and her enemy by the non - importation law of May , 1810 , announced the repeal , on the 1st of the follow- ing November , of the decrees of Berlin and Milan ; ' and that in ...
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... France , of any intention to repair the other wrongs done to the United States , and particularly to restore the great amount of American property seized and condemned under edicts , which , though not affecting their neutral relations ...
... France , of any intention to repair the other wrongs done to the United States , and particularly to restore the great amount of American property seized and condemned under edicts , which , though not affecting their neutral relations ...
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... France were thrown open to every neutral flag . The Americans raised a clamour against the rule on the pre- tence of its having been abandoned during the American war . This , however , was not true : far from being abandoned , it was ...
... France were thrown open to every neutral flag . The Americans raised a clamour against the rule on the pre- tence of its having been abandoned during the American war . This , however , was not true : far from being abandoned , it was ...
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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.