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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... once to the most suitable depth of soil , forming an entirely new bulb above or below the old one , which is left a hollow shell ; as if its whole substance had been transferred , like the honey that bees will remove from the comb in a ...
... once to the most suitable depth of soil , forming an entirely new bulb above or below the old one , which is left a hollow shell ; as if its whole substance had been transferred , like the honey that bees will remove from the comb in a ...
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... He meets with a specimen in flower , and soon deter- mines its Linnĉan Class and Order . Referring to the English Botany of Smith , he finds at once- ' Juncus Juncus acutus . Great Sea Rush . Hexandria Monogynia . 12 Gardening .
... He meets with a specimen in flower , and soon deter- mines its Linnĉan Class and Order . Referring to the English Botany of Smith , he finds at once- ' Juncus Juncus acutus . Great Sea Rush . Hexandria Monogynia . 12 Gardening .
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... once with vinegar , procured from town . True flavour needs it , and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well - boiled eggs . Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl , And , scarce suspected , animate the whole ; And lastly , on the ...
... once with vinegar , procured from town . True flavour needs it , and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well - boiled eggs . Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl , And , scarce suspected , animate the whole ; And lastly , on the ...
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... once , and will fancy - or why not sketch from familiar reality ? -a most capable ' situation . A horseshoe of saddle - back hills encloses a sufficient concavity open to the full south . Of course the tops and upper slopes of the ...
... once , and will fancy - or why not sketch from familiar reality ? -a most capable ' situation . A horseshoe of saddle - back hills encloses a sufficient concavity open to the full south . Of course the tops and upper slopes of the ...
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... once ; the dwarf clumps of laurustinus sparkling in the breeze ; and the rosemary , fragrant dew of the sea : —that's for remembrance - pray you , love , remember . ' We gathered twigs of that , and of the bitter rue yonder , when ...
... once ; the dwarf clumps of laurustinus sparkling in the breeze ; and the rosemary , fragrant dew of the sea : —that's for remembrance - pray you , love , remember . ' We gathered twigs of that , and of the bitter rue yonder , when ...
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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.