The Quarterly Review, Volumen134William 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, 1873 |
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... college recluse . ' The main sources of their popularity may be the anecdotes , the historical sketches , the traits of character and manners , the witty sayings and fine reflections , that abound in them ; but their distinctive charm ...
... college recluse . ' The main sources of their popularity may be the anecdotes , the historical sketches , the traits of character and manners , the witty sayings and fine reflections , that abound in them ; but their distinctive charm ...
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... College estates enabled Mr. Rogers to ascertain that abundant harvests were continuous from 1321 to the incidence of the Great Plague ( 1348 ) . The first seventy years of the fifteenth century were still more abundant , so that during ...
... College estates enabled Mr. Rogers to ascertain that abundant harvests were continuous from 1321 to the incidence of the Great Plague ( 1348 ) . The first seventy years of the fifteenth century were still more abundant , so that during ...
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... College . The Act had hardly received the Royal Assent when Trinity College claimed its right to pursue its work as a national institution , proposed to carry further the policy adopted in 1793 , and to apply the principle of the ...
... College . The Act had hardly received the Royal Assent when Trinity College claimed its right to pursue its work as a national institution , proposed to carry further the policy adopted in 1793 , and to apply the principle of the ...
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... College . It had created a class of Roman Catholics who were familiar with the traditions of the College , who would be there to welcome the new - comers whom further changes might attract , and take from them any sense of strangeness ...
... College . It had created a class of Roman Catholics who were familiar with the traditions of the College , who would be there to welcome the new - comers whom further changes might attract , and take from them any sense of strangeness ...
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... College had been able to do for itself after the Report of 1853. So too the question of the abolition of tests in ... College , and should further give a new organization to the University Senate . In the Bill introduced by Mr. Fawcett ...
... College had been able to do for itself after the Report of 1853. So too the question of the abolition of tests in ... College , and should further give a new organization to the University Senate . In the Bill introduced by Mr. Fawcett ...
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Página 248 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 149 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 481 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 25 - Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing each, Distinct in individualities, But like each other even as those who love.
Página 203 - Oh ! with whom But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind — But how could I forget thee ? Through what power, Even for the least division of an hour, Have I been so beguiled as to be blind To my most grievous loss ? — That thought's return Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore, Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn, Knowing my heart's best treasure was no more ; That neither present time, nor years unborn...
Página 195 - Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night, Brother to death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care, return And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth; Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.
Página 243 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Página 369 - Than that a child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts, And stirrings of inquietude, when they By tendency of nature needs must fail.
Página 452 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 510 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.