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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... hope that the successive confirm- ations of the extinction of the French decrees , so far as they vio- lated the neutral commerce of the United States , would have in- duced the government of Great Britain to repeal her orders in ...
... hope that the successive confirm- ations of the extinction of the French decrees , so far as they vio- lated the neutral commerce of the United States , would have in- duced the government of Great Britain to repeal her orders in ...
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... Hope , the produce of the eastern and western worlds sold cheaper in the markets of France and Holland , than in our own . ' We defend our colonies , ' says the writer to whom we have alluded , ' at a vast expence ; we maintain at a ...
... Hope , the produce of the eastern and western worlds sold cheaper in the markets of France and Holland , than in our own . ' We defend our colonies , ' says the writer to whom we have alluded , ' at a vast expence ; we maintain at a ...
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... hope of deciding the angry , yet timorous government of America to a war with us , to change his tone towards that country ; and he did it with a sudden and impudent consistency truly French . His Ma- jesty , ' says Champagny , loves ...
... hope of deciding the angry , yet timorous government of America to a war with us , to change his tone towards that country ; and he did it with a sudden and impudent consistency truly French . His Ma- jesty , ' says Champagny , loves ...
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... hope , to see the day when the former shall be abandoned . As to the latter , we are of opinion that the pretensions to this right , set up by Selden and others , went no farther than that right which conquest , and an uninter- rupted ...
... hope , to see the day when the former shall be abandoned . As to the latter , we are of opinion that the pretensions to this right , set up by Selden and others , went no farther than that right which conquest , and an uninter- rupted ...
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... hope that an alliance with Buonaparte will remove all restrictions on her commerce ? Does she not know that Buona- parte hates commerce and all its concerns ? Has she forgotten the answer he made to a deputation of the merchants of ...
... hope that an alliance with Buonaparte will remove all restrictions on her commerce ? Does she not know that Buona- parte hates commerce and all its concerns ? Has she forgotten the answer he made to a deputation of the merchants 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 156 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Page 293 - who should teach them all things, and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them...
Page 378 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. 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 378 - No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers. Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Page 377 - 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 194 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Page 48 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Page 98 - 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.