The Quarterly Review, Volume 16John Murray, 1816 - English literature |
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... tion , being superior in splendour to any that our travellers had met with in Turkey . Of the Slave - market we shall allow Mr. Legh to speak for himself . ' We visited also the Slave - market , where , to say nothing of the moral ...
... tion , being superior in splendour to any that our travellers had met with in Turkey . Of the Slave - market we shall allow Mr. Legh to speak for himself . ' We visited also the Slave - market , where , to say nothing of the moral ...
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... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
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... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , ' Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , ' Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
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... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing state ...
... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing state ...
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... tion and well cut : allowing , therefore , seven heads for the length of the whole figure , its height , if in a standing posture , must have been equal to eighty - four feet ; a height far exceeding that of the supposed 1 2 statue ...
... tion and well cut : allowing , therefore , seven heads for the length of the whole figure , its height , if in a standing posture , must have been equal to eighty - four feet ; a height far exceeding that of the supposed 1 2 statue ...
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Page 196 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 393 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 194 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 86 - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch ; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes.
Page 252 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 197 - Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 200 - My daughter! with thy name thus much shall end — I see thee not, — I hear thee not, — but none Can be so wrapt in thee ; thou art the friend To whom the shadows of far years extend : Albeit my brow thou never shouldst behold, My voice shall with thy future visions blend, And reach into thy heart, — when mine is cold, — A token and a tone, even from thy father's mould.
Page 195 - Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 195 - Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm!
Page 206 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, But let us part fair foes; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing; I would also deem O'er others...