The Quarterly Review, Volumen50William 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, 1834 |
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... Poor - Law Question . By C. Wetherell . 2. Extracts from the Information received by His Ma- jesty's Commissioners as to the Administration and Operation of the Poor - Laws . Published by Authority . 3. Reply of the Commissioners for ...
... Poor - Law Question . By C. Wetherell . 2. Extracts from the Information received by His Ma- jesty's Commissioners as to the Administration and Operation of the Poor - Laws . Published by Authority . 3. Reply of the Commissioners for ...
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... poor vanity of dressing himself in borrowed feathers and making a pompous étalage ' of what does not belong to him , is not , we presume to think , the fittest examiner of the delicate sensibilities of genius , or the safest guide in a ...
... poor vanity of dressing himself in borrowed feathers and making a pompous étalage ' of what does not belong to him , is not , we presume to think , the fittest examiner of the delicate sensibilities of genius , or the safest guide in a ...
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... and object of his work : but , alas ! poor Mr. Madden is still more bewildered by Johnson than by Pope . In Pope's case the silence silence of the biographer permitted Mr. Madden to suppose dys- 42 Madden on the Infirmities of Genius .
... and object of his work : but , alas ! poor Mr. Madden is still more bewildered by Johnson than by Pope . In Pope's case the silence silence of the biographer permitted Mr. Madden to suppose dys- 42 Madden on the Infirmities of Genius .
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... poor Doctor Johnson alone . " Many of these melancholy men , " says Burton , " are sad , and not fearful - some fearful and not sad . " - - ( Johnson , for instance , groaning in his chamber , as Dr. Adams found him , and at another ...
... poor Doctor Johnson alone . " Many of these melancholy men , " says Burton , " are sad , and not fearful - some fearful and not sad . " - - ( Johnson , for instance , groaning in his chamber , as Dr. Adams found him , and at another ...
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... poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit . ' ( Croker's Boswell , vol . i . , p . 43. ) It There is hardly an instance amongst his innumerable larcenies from Boswell , in which Mr. Madden does not in this manner ...
... poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit . ' ( Croker's Boswell , vol . i . , p . 43. ) It There is hardly an instance amongst his innumerable larcenies from Boswell , in which Mr. Madden does not in this manner ...
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Página 513 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Página 538 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 538 - And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Página 427 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 556 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Página 542 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Página 486 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 289 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 446 - Exspatiata ruunt per apertos flumina campos, Cumque satis arbusta simul pecudesque virosque Tectaque cumque suis rapiunt penetralia sacris.
Página 284 - 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.