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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... perhaps have been fatal . This essay , ' continues Capt . Flinders , did not lead me to think favourably of the vessel in which I had undertaken a voyage half round the globe . ' " On the 7th of October they anchored under the lee of ...
... perhaps have been fatal . This essay , ' continues Capt . Flinders , did not lead me to think favourably of the vessel in which I had undertaken a voyage half round the globe . ' " On the 7th of October they anchored under the lee of ...
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... perhaps we should say rather too considerable a portion of the second volume ; but they serve to mark the lamentable degradation of character which the French nation suffered under the dominion of a low - minded and malignant tyrant ...
... perhaps we should say rather too considerable a portion of the second volume ; but they serve to mark the lamentable degradation of character which the French nation suffered under the dominion of a low - minded and malignant tyrant ...
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... perhaps a little altered , of Captain Flinders's charts . At length , in 1810 , Captain Flinders was allowed to quit the island on giving his parole not to act in any service which might be considered as directly or indirectly hostile ...
... perhaps a little altered , of Captain Flinders's charts . At length , in 1810 , Captain Flinders was allowed to quit the island on giving his parole not to act in any service which might be considered as directly or indirectly hostile ...
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... perhaps the opening of the strait which others ima- gined would be found to divide this land into two or more portions . This was an important point to determine . On the east coast and on Van Dieman's land little remained to be done ...
... perhaps the opening of the strait which others ima- gined would be found to divide this land into two or more portions . This was an important point to determine . On the east coast and on Van Dieman's land little remained to be done ...
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... perhaps many more , fathoms . To be constantly covered with water , seems necessary to the existence of the animalcules , for they do not work , except in holes upon the reef , beyond low water mark ; but the coral and other broken ...
... perhaps many more , fathoms . To be constantly covered with water , seems necessary to the existence of the animalcules , for they do not work , except in holes upon the reef , beyond low water mark ; but the coral and other broken ...
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Page 503 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan. — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this...
Page 87 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
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.
Page 105 - Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene.
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,...