The Quarterly Review, Volume 32William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1825 - English literature |
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... Ladies ' Branch Societies , or Associations ; ' something from the sale of pincushions and ladies ' work of all kinds . In an Evangelical Ma- gazine before us these items appear - by selling matches , £ 1 : 3s .; by lending tracts , £ 2 ...
... Ladies ' Branch Societies , or Associations ; ' something from the sale of pincushions and ladies ' work of all kinds . In an Evangelical Ma- gazine before us these items appear - by selling matches , £ 1 : 3s .; by lending tracts , £ 2 ...
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... lady presents thirty pounds as the produce of her jewels ; and a blind basket - girl as many shillings , being the amount of what candles must have cost her during the winter , if she had had eyes to see . What a sunshine of the soul ...
... lady presents thirty pounds as the produce of her jewels ; and a blind basket - girl as many shillings , being the amount of what candles must have cost her during the winter , if she had had eyes to see . What a sunshine of the soul ...
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... lady , suing as a feme sole , and without her husband , a proceeding entirely against the principles of the common law , showed forth to the king the covenants , and that they had not been fulfilled . The king caused the defendant to ...
... lady , suing as a feme sole , and without her husband , a proceeding entirely against the principles of the common law , showed forth to the king the covenants , and that they had not been fulfilled . The king caused the defendant to ...
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... Lady Audley therefore prayed a decree , but it was the opinion of the Council that since the parties had submitted them- selves to the King and Council , they could not make an end without advising with the King . Accordingly the ...
... Lady Audley therefore prayed a decree , but it was the opinion of the Council that since the parties had submitted them- selves to the King and Council , they could not make an end without advising with the King . Accordingly the ...
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... ladies , and there is an opera , but the performers are confined chiefly , if not wholly , to persons of colour ; but it is said that Don Pedro is so particularly attached to music , that he sometimes does not disdain to lead the dingy ...
... ladies , and there is an opera , but the performers are confined chiefly , if not wholly , to persons of colour ; but it is said that Don Pedro is so particularly attached to music , that he sometimes does not disdain to lead the dingy ...
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Page 450 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 445 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 219 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Page 442 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 520 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Page 218 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air: There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Page 216 - Like homely-featured night, of clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less than hers : not worn indeed on high With ostentatious pageantry, but set With modest grandeur in thy purple zone, Resplendent less, but of an ampler round.
Page 220 - The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to be felt, rather than expressed.
Page 353 - The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard, the Good Knight without Fear and without Reproach . BY THE LOYAL SERVANT.
Page 302 - Yet serves to second too some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.