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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... kind ; but also friendly to admonish the captain , and other principal commanders and officers in such foreign ships and vessels , that they do not receive nor entertain on board any of their ships , no more of his Majesty's subjects ...
... kind ; but also friendly to admonish the captain , and other principal commanders and officers in such foreign ships and vessels , that they do not receive nor entertain on board any of their ships , no more of his Majesty's subjects ...
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... kind having occurred since that of 1687 , till the affair of the Chesapeake . The conduct of Admiral Berkeley in this business was , as we have stated , wholly disapproved by his government , and he was immediately removed from his ...
... kind having occurred since that of 1687 , till the affair of the Chesapeake . The conduct of Admiral Berkeley in this business was , as we have stated , wholly disapproved by his government , and he was immediately removed from his ...
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... kind of document , and the protections that are granted by the American consuls and vice - consuls , and notaries public , it is not surprizing that English seamen , in the disguise of Americans , should be met with in almost every ...
... kind of document , and the protections that are granted by the American consuls and vice - consuls , and notaries public , it is not surprizing that English seamen , in the disguise of Americans , should be met with in almost every ...
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... , and malefactors of every kind , who had fled from the offended laws of their country ; — ' deodands of the gallows , ' ( as they are " are significantly called by an American author , ) 32 MAR . America - Orders in Council , & c .
... , and malefactors of every kind , who had fled from the offended laws of their country ; — ' deodands of the gallows , ' ( as they are " are significantly called by an American author , ) 32 MAR . America - Orders in Council , & c .
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... kind friend and a liberal benefactor : he gave him some preferment after he had resided with him two years , by which he was enabled to marry ; and shortly after he added the rectory of Lambeth . At this time he took his doctor's degree ...
... kind friend and a liberal benefactor : he gave him some preferment after he had resided with him two years , by which he was enabled to marry ; and shortly after he added the rectory of Lambeth . At this time he took his doctor's degree ...
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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.