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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... their colonies , and bringing back their produce . Our prize courts , however , condemned this new species of neutrality , on the principle that a neutral has no right to A 2 on 1812 . America - Orders in Council , & c .
... their colonies , and bringing back their produce . Our prize courts , however , condemned this new species of neutrality , on the principle that a neutral has no right to A 2 on 1812 . America - Orders in Council , & c .
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... produce of those colonies to the ports of America ; they re - shipped them for the enemies ' ports of Europe , they entered freely all the ports of the United Kingdom , with car- goes brought directly from the hostile colonies ; thus ...
... produce of those colonies to the ports of America ; they re - shipped them for the enemies ' ports of Europe , they entered freely all the ports of the United Kingdom , with car- goes brought directly from the hostile colonies ; thus ...
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... produce and British manufactures , wheresoever found and to whomsoever belonging , ' shall be seized and confiscated , it would answer no good purpose to ourselves to revoke our Orders and re- move every restriction . The orders in ...
... produce and British manufactures , wheresoever found and to whomsoever belonging , ' shall be seized and confiscated , it would answer no good purpose to ourselves to revoke our Orders and re- move every restriction . The orders in ...
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... produce decided warfare ? who came down with his ship cleared for action , -the crew at their quarters , -guns double - shotted , matches lighted ? The neutral ! He who had not an enemy on the seas , makes a display of all this ' pomp ...
... produce decided warfare ? who came down with his ship cleared for action , -the crew at their quarters , -guns double - shotted , matches lighted ? The neutral ! He who had not an enemy on the seas , makes a display of all this ' pomp ...
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... produced or encouraged these captious complaints . Had England maintained the state of her naval throne , America would never have dared to refuse obey- sance and reverence to her power . , 6 The modern Charlemagne , however , talks of ...
... produced or encouraged these captious complaints . Had England maintained the state of her naval throne , America would never have dared to refuse obey- sance and reverence to her power . , 6 The modern Charlemagne , however , talks of ...
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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.