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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... matter of faith , and a grand arcanum , that the only propitious day in the year for Early Yorks is the 19th of July . The old gardeners are given to planning their opera- tions according as the moon is waning or waxing . But of this at ...
... matter of faith , and a grand arcanum , that the only propitious day in the year for Early Yorks is the 19th of July . The old gardeners are given to planning their opera- tions according as the moon is waning or waxing . But of this at ...
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... matter . But it would be as idle , while we pursue this last - mentioned subject , so deep and so intricate that its most able cultivators are only learners , to lay aside the continual use of the Linnæan System , as it would be for ...
... matter . But it would be as idle , while we pursue this last - mentioned subject , so deep and so intricate that its most able cultivators are only learners , to lay aside the continual use of the Linnæan System , as it would be for ...
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... matter , a suffi- ciency of pièces de résistance , to ballast the trifle and the bonbon crackers . --- As to the Cottage Gardener , its contents are more suitable for a double - coach - housed cottage of gentility ' -than for that ...
... matter , a suffi- ciency of pièces de résistance , to ballast the trifle and the bonbon crackers . --- As to the Cottage Gardener , its contents are more suitable for a double - coach - housed cottage of gentility ' -than for that ...
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... matters not what you are looking at , as long as the atmosphere is the same - whether at the brightest of flowers or the most prismatic of soap - bubbles . No indoor promenade should tell more forcibly on the hygrometer , or indicate ...
... matters not what you are looking at , as long as the atmosphere is the same - whether at the brightest of flowers or the most prismatic of soap - bubbles . No indoor promenade should tell more forcibly on the hygrometer , or indicate ...
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... matter , and so cried he over a stair , " Fy upon you , whoresons , why have you broken order ? Down the street ye passed in array and with great mirth . Why flee ye , villains , now , without order ? Turn and strike every one a stroke ...
... matter , and so cried he over a stair , " Fy upon you , whoresons , why have you broken order ? Down the street ye passed in array and with great mirth . Why flee ye , villains , now , without order ? Turn and strike every one a stroke ...
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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.