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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... parties was anxious to send him to India , where the British name had lost much of its prestige by the surrender of General Matthews and his army to Tippoo Saib . The Company also wished him to go . But the actual appointment was ...
... parties was anxious to send him to India , where the British name had lost much of its prestige by the surrender of General Matthews and his army to Tippoo Saib . The Company also wished him to go . But the actual appointment was ...
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... In fixing the amount to be levied , it was assumed by him that moderate payments , punctually collected , were most likely to Vol . 105.-No. 209 . promote promote the interests of all parties . The grand question Lord Cornwallis . 17.
... In fixing the amount to be levied , it was assumed by him that moderate payments , punctually collected , were most likely to Vol . 105.-No. 209 . promote promote the interests of all parties . The grand question Lord Cornwallis . 17.
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... parties . The grand question , as to which he and his chief adviser , Mr. Shore ( afterwards Lord Teignmouth ) , differed , was , whether the arrangement should be decennial or permanent . The Governor - General's reasons for making it ...
... parties . The grand question , as to which he and his chief adviser , Mr. Shore ( afterwards Lord Teignmouth ) , differed , was , whether the arrangement should be decennial or permanent . The Governor - General's reasons for making it ...
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... parties could co- operate like Englishmen , would have been engraved by subscrip- tion long ago , and be as well known as Frith's Derby Day ' or Copley's Death of Chatham , ' which it most resembles in design and manner . The subject is ...
... parties could co- operate like Englishmen , would have been engraved by subscrip- tion long ago , and be as well known as Frith's Derby Day ' or Copley's Death of Chatham , ' which it most resembles in design and manner . The subject is ...
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... party can doubt that revolution and separation would have ensued ; whilst the ad- mission of the Catholics would only have made confusion worse confounded , and completed the resemblance to a Polish Diet . We think , therefore , that ...
... party can doubt that revolution and separation would have ensued ; whilst the ad- mission of the Catholics would only have made confusion worse confounded , and completed the resemblance to a Polish Diet . We think , therefore , that ...
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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.