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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... respects a remarkable one . Without lofty ambition or shining talents , without being a hero , an orator , or a statesman of the first class , he filled effectively the most prominent place on four conspicuous stages at four of the most ...
... respects a remarkable one . Without lofty ambition or shining talents , without being a hero , an orator , or a statesman of the first class , he filled effectively the most prominent place on four conspicuous stages at four of the most ...
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... respect , and give a brief biographical notice of the Marquis . The pedigree of the Cornwallis family is easily carried back to the fourteenth century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier ...
... respect , and give a brief biographical notice of the Marquis . The pedigree of the Cornwallis family is easily carried back to the fourteenth century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier ...
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... respect he resembled the Duke of Wellington ; and if the required sacrifices had been as great as he professed or fancied , he would have been equal to them . It is also to be observed that he courted instead of shrinking from ...
... respect he resembled the Duke of Wellington ; and if the required sacrifices had been as great as he professed or fancied , he would have been equal to them . It is also to be observed that he courted instead of shrinking from ...
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... respect . We are impatient to hear the event of your campaign , and promise ourselves a happy one . ' Fortunately General Medows was a man of sense as well as of conduct and courage , and continued to co - operate cordi- ally with him ...
... respect . We are impatient to hear the event of your campaign , and promise ourselves a happy one . ' Fortunately General Medows was a man of sense as well as of conduct and courage , and continued to co - operate cordi- ally with him ...
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... respect due to the opinion and authority of Mr. Shore , I thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must origi- nate with the Board of Control , and likewise that I should induce Mr. Pitt to become my partner in the final ...
... respect due to the opinion and authority of Mr. Shore , I thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must origi- nate with the Board of Control , and likewise that I should induce Mr. Pitt to become my partner in the final ...
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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.