Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - English essays |
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... a visit to that capital accordingly . After his return , he made some additions to his chapters ; but being soon after re- called to the duties of public life , he never afterwards HIS NOTIONS OF WHAT HISTORY SHOULD BE . 15 found iv.
... a visit to that capital accordingly . After his return , he made some additions to his chapters ; but being soon after re- called to the duties of public life , he never afterwards HIS NOTIONS OF WHAT HISTORY SHOULD BE . 15 found iv.
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... story of the times " of which he treats . On the contrary , he is more full of argument , and what is properly called re- flection , than most modern historians with whom we AND NOT ACTED ON BY HIMSELF . 17 are acquainted.
... story of the times " of which he treats . On the contrary , he is more full of argument , and what is properly called re- flection , than most modern historians with whom we AND NOT ACTED ON BY HIMSELF . 17 are acquainted.
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... called by some , of enormous wickedness by others , must be considered in two points of view . First , was it not in itself just and necessary ? Secondly , was the example of it likely to be salutary or pernicious ? In regard to the ...
... called by some , of enormous wickedness by others , must be considered in two points of view . First , was it not in itself just and necessary ? Secondly , was the example of it likely to be salutary or pernicious ? In regard to the ...
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... called the Rye - House Plot , Mr. Fox appears to entertain considerable doubt , partly on account of the improbability of many of the circumstances , and partly on account of the uniform and resolute denial of Rumbold , the chief of ...
... called the Rye - House Plot , Mr. Fox appears to entertain considerable doubt , partly on account of the improbability of many of the circumstances , and partly on account of the uniform and resolute denial of Rumbold , the chief of ...
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... called upon to receive that detestable evidence , the very recollection of which , even at this distance of time , fires every honest heart with indignation . As well might we palliate the murders of Tiberius ; who seldom put to death ...
... called upon to receive that detestable evidence , the very recollection of which , even at this distance of time , fires every honest heart with indignation . As well might we palliate the murders of Tiberius ; who seldom put to death ...
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Page 336 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 331 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 325 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 410 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 481 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 410 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; Wi...
Page 411 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 332 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 447 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 326 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.