The Quarterly Review, Volume 37William 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, 1828 - English literature |
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... means of securing the trade , and also of improving the new settlements on that coast . The Australian agricultural company will , in no great length of time , give a new aspect to that part of the eastern coast on which they have ...
... means of securing the trade , and also of improving the new settlements on that coast . The Australian agricultural company will , in no great length of time , give a new aspect to that part of the eastern coast on which they have ...
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... mean proofs of the general wealth and prosperity which this infant colony has attained . Nor while comfort and convenience are thus studied , is the improvement of the mind by any means neglected . ' A great variety of respectable ...
... mean proofs of the general wealth and prosperity which this infant colony has attained . Nor while comfort and convenience are thus studied , is the improvement of the mind by any means neglected . ' A great variety of respectable ...
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... means that can be devised for promoting the harmony of the colony ; but as lawyers are the singers of the Io pæans about this said harmony , we are naturally induced to wonder what has so suddenly brought about this before unheard - of ...
... means that can be devised for promoting the harmony of the colony ; but as lawyers are the singers of the Io pæans about this said harmony , we are naturally induced to wonder what has so suddenly brought about this before unheard - of ...
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... his dominions , would easily obtain , in a happier climate , a secure refuge , a new fortune adequate to his merit , the freedom of complaint , complaint , and perhaps the means of revenge . But 42 Life and Writings of Lucian .
... his dominions , would easily obtain , in a happier climate , a secure refuge , a new fortune adequate to his merit , the freedom of complaint , complaint , and perhaps the means of revenge . But 42 Life and Writings of Lucian .
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Page 347 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
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Page 72 - Warbler ! that love-prompted strain, ('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain : Yet mightst thou seem, proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH.
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Page 98 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
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Page 402 - I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even Imagination, passion and Invention, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the Lower Empire.