The Quarterly Review, المجلد 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... never saw a man so distressed as he was at having just previously promised the place for which you had made such urgent application . Believe me , & c . , GEORGE ROSE . ” ' In one or two instances Mr. Ross has been seduced into a hardly ...
... never saw a man so distressed as he was at having just previously promised the place for which you had made such urgent application . Believe me , & c . , GEORGE ROSE . ” ' In one or two instances Mr. Ross has been seduced into a hardly ...
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... never cordially agreed on any combined plan of operations . Lord Cornwallis was probably right in proposing to run some risk , in the hope of striking a decisive blow which would bring the enemy to terms ; but Sir Henry Clinton may be ...
... never cordially agreed on any combined plan of operations . Lord Cornwallis was probably right in proposing to run some risk , in the hope of striking a decisive blow which would bring the enemy to terms ; but Sir Henry Clinton may be ...
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... never been mentioned by me to any mortal . A trait which I heard of a Highlander struck me exceedingly . Macpherson offered to take him by the hand , which the other declined , telling him in the height of his power as Governor ...
... never been mentioned by me to any mortal . A trait which I heard of a Highlander struck me exceedingly . Macpherson offered to take him by the hand , which the other declined , telling him in the height of his power as Governor ...
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... never suffered my private feelings to get the better of the great duty which I owe to the public , and that my conscience does not reproach me with a single act of improper or impolitic lenity . ' The best proof that he held an upright ...
... never suffered my private feelings to get the better of the great duty which I owe to the public , and that my conscience does not reproach me with a single act of improper or impolitic lenity . ' The best proof that he held an upright ...
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... never be left unlocked until a bishop was burnt in one of them . Nor does either of these representatives of Irish feelings and opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of ...
... never be left unlocked until a bishop was burnt in one of them . Nor does either of these representatives of Irish feelings and opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of ...
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الصفحة 195 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 222 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
الصفحة 180 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
الصفحة 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
الصفحة 43 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
الصفحة 217 - Then, (said Johnson,) I will take no more physic, not even my opiates: for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to GOD unclouded.
الصفحة 329 - Where be ye gaun, ye broken men ?' Quo' fause Sakelde ; ' come tell to me !' Now Dickie of Dryhope led that band, And the never a word o' lear had he. ' Why trespass ye on the English side ? Row-footed outlaws, stand!' quo' he; The never a word had Dickie to say, Sae he thrust the lance through his fause bodie.
الصفحة 204 - He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
الصفحة 46 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
الصفحة 207 - Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind. My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me.