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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... thought to attribute too much importance to this object , in saying that such a distribution ought to be a leading article in the instructions for any succeeding voyage of discovery or investigation to these parts ; but it is from ...
... thought to attribute too much importance to this object , in saying that such a distribution ought to be a leading article in the instructions for any succeeding voyage of discovery or investigation to these parts ; but it is from ...
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... thought not unlikely to communicate with the gulph of Car- pentaria ; and some went so far as to deem it probable that a pas- sage might exist from this gulph to the unknown part of the south coast , beyond the isles of St. Francis and ...
... thought not unlikely to communicate with the gulph of Car- pentaria ; and some went so far as to deem it probable that a pas- sage might exist from this gulph to the unknown part of the south coast , beyond the isles of St. Francis and ...
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... thought that the pitcher might be a contrivance of nature to catch the rain or dew for the sustenance of the plant , instead of the fluid being an exuda- tion from the root or leaves of the plant , as in the case of the nepen- thes ...
... thought that the pitcher might be a contrivance of nature to catch the rain or dew for the sustenance of the plant , instead of the fluid being an exuda- tion from the root or leaves of the plant , as in the case of the nepen- thes ...
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... thoughts and feelings , judgment and discrimination . Mr. Shepherd is much more minute and particular ; but he has had ... thought less , in the same space of time , than Mr. Shepherd ; and as seeing sights must be the great object of a ...
... thoughts and feelings , judgment and discrimination . Mr. Shepherd is much more minute and particular ; but he has had ... thought less , in the same space of time , than Mr. Shepherd ; and as seeing sights must be the great object of a ...
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... thought of extravagantly extolling the Bourbons for an improvement so obvious in its con- ception and so easy of execution ; and yet all Europe is to ring with Buonaparte's praises because he has executed some hundred additional yards ...
... thought of extravagantly extolling the Bourbons for an improvement so obvious in its con- ception and so easy of execution ; and yet all Europe is to ring with Buonaparte's praises because he has executed some hundred additional yards ...
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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.
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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,...