The Quarterly Review, Volumen71

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William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray (IV), William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle)
John Murray, 1843
 

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Página 48 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Página 459 - They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high — And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.
Página 356 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 457 - The harvests of Arretium, This year, old men shall reap ; This year, young boys in Umbro Shall plunge the struggling sheep; And in the vats of Luna, This year, the must shall foam Round the white feet of laughing girls Whose sires have marched to Rome.
Página 460 - It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk to see, — Horatius in his harness, Halting upon one knee: And underneath is written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Página 1 - Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought, Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full, its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ' Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth retrace the mazy clue Of varied scents, that charm'd her as she flew ? Hail, Memory, hail ! thy universal reign Guards the least link of being's glorious chain.
Página 574 - ... can be found for slaves, so strong, as that the desired result may be long delayed, unless all markets be shut against the purchase of African negroes ; the parties to this treaty agree that they will unite in all becoming representations and remonstrances, with any and all Powers within whose dominions such markets are allowed to exist ; and that they will urge upon all such Powers the propriety and duty of closing such markets effectually, at once and forever.
Página 46 - If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Página 456 - The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amain From many a stately market-place. From many a fruitful plain; From many a lonely hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine...

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