The Quarterly Review, Volume 89William 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, 1851 - English literature |
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... expression of the ' hortulan ' passion which , whether latent or in full action , remains , like hope , ineradicable from the human breast ? It is a natural consequence , too , that those who cannot taste the actual fruition of a garden ...
... expression of the ' hortulan ' passion which , whether latent or in full action , remains , like hope , ineradicable from the human breast ? It is a natural consequence , too , that those who cannot taste the actual fruition of a garden ...
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... expression . She was covetous of power and of money , like her brother and her father , and not without talent for business . But- true sister of Henry VIII . — all considerations of policy were thrown ' to the wind under the influence ...
... expression . She was covetous of power and of money , like her brother and her father , and not without talent for business . But- true sister of Henry VIII . — all considerations of policy were thrown ' to the wind under the influence ...
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... expression not to be mistaken of resolution and sense . She is dressed in a sort of cowl , with a rosary and cross in her hand . The collar , like a man's shirt - collar of the present day , adds to the masculine character of the ...
... expression not to be mistaken of resolution and sense . She is dressed in a sort of cowl , with a rosary and cross in her hand . The collar , like a man's shirt - collar of the present day , adds to the masculine character of the ...
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... expression of the heads . Mr. Dennistoun tells us ( vol . ii . p . 137 ) that when he left the studio of Fra Beato he carried away with him his master's taste for rich brocade , gold leaf , fruit , and flowers ; — we farther hear ...
... expression of the heads . Mr. Dennistoun tells us ( vol . ii . p . 137 ) that when he left the studio of Fra Beato he carried away with him his master's taste for rich brocade , gold leaf , fruit , and flowers ; — we farther hear ...
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... expression from ecstatic visions ; the Passion of our Saviour was con- ceived by him in tearful penitence , and executed with sobs and sighs . Deeming the forms he thus depicted to proceed from supernatural dic- tation , he never would ...
... expression from ecstatic visions ; the Passion of our Saviour was con- ceived by him in tearful penitence , and executed with sobs and sighs . Deeming the forms he thus depicted to proceed from supernatural dic- tation , he never would ...
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Page 372 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 29 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ; camphire with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 377 - Slanders, sir : for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams...
Page 32 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 16 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 377 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts : without this, the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive, or say there was a world.
Page 235 - Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord's Prayer with an audible voice ; the people also kneeling, and repeating it with him, both here, and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service.
Page 141 - I treated him insolently: he loved me, and I did not think he did. I reproached him with the difference between us when he acted from...
Page 271 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 220 - Communion in the church, or execute any other public ministration, he shall have upon him, besides his Rochette, a Surplice, or Alb, and a Cope or Vestment, and also his pastoral staff in his hand, or else borne or holden by his chaplain.