The Quarterly Review, Volume 12William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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... laws at that time publishing , shewed the punishments we were doomed to suffer ; persons seen in conversation ; every thing in fine had some con- nection with this mysterious league ; and the dread of some sudden and overwhelming blow ...
... laws at that time publishing , shewed the punishments we were doomed to suffer ; persons seen in conversation ; every thing in fine had some con- nection with this mysterious league ; and the dread of some sudden and overwhelming blow ...
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... law , by which different pe- riods of transportation are apportioned to different degrees of crime , are rendered entirely null . ' Among the convicts , were another class of men whose minds were never to be reconciled to their fate ...
... law , by which different pe- riods of transportation are apportioned to different degrees of crime , are rendered entirely null . ' Among the convicts , were another class of men whose minds were never to be reconciled to their fate ...
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... law , or to that of Pensylvania , where there is no gallows . ' It is no harm there , to step over a man's snake - fence into his orchard , to taste if his peaches be ripe , ' or into his cellar , ' to try if his beer be fit for tapping ...
... law , or to that of Pensylvania , where there is no gallows . ' It is no harm there , to step over a man's snake - fence into his orchard , to taste if his peaches be ripe , ' or into his cellar , ' to try if his beer be fit for tapping ...
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... laws and institutions , however it may have been occasionally modified by the effect of foreign models , a distinct national character has predominated . It is the highest branch of literature , the highest effort of the human mind ...
... laws and institutions , however it may have been occasionally modified by the effect of foreign models , a distinct national character has predominated . It is the highest branch of literature , the highest effort of the human mind ...
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... Law , were , as he says , defectively applied , and weakened by an emulous war among them- selves ; they required therefore some collateral help , and that help he thought consisted in poesy . Gondibert , therefore , was de- signed to ...
... Law , were , as he says , defectively applied , and weakened by an emulous war among them- selves ; they required therefore some collateral help , and that help he thought consisted in poesy . Gondibert , therefore , was de- signed to ...
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Page 73 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 106 - Made many a fond enquiry ; and when they, Whose presence gave no comfort, were gone by, Her heart was still more sad. And by yon gate, That bars the traveller's road, she often stood, And when a stranger horseman came, the latch Would lift, and in his face look wistfully : Most happy, if, from aught discovered there Of tender feeling, she might dare repeat The same sad question.
Page 507 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 105 - Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene. Like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay from guilt ; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair.
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Page 103 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Page 94 - Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens,...