The Quarterly review, Volume 82Murray, 1848 |
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... remarkable , however , and not easily explained , that though Frederick practised authorship for almost half a century -though every day he was reading and writing German for business and French for pleasure - yet he never in any degree ...
... remarkable , however , and not easily explained , that though Frederick practised authorship for almost half a century -though every day he was reading and writing German for business and French for pleasure - yet he never in any degree ...
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... remarkable that Frederick , who not only possessed but actively wielded this uncontrolled authority , and who never to his dying day manifested the slightest idea of relaxing it , yet in many of his writings expresses the most ardent ...
... remarkable that Frederick , who not only possessed but actively wielded this uncontrolled authority , and who never to his dying day manifested the slightest idea of relaxing it , yet in many of his writings expresses the most ardent ...
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... remarkable that the revenue derived from it almost immediately doubled . In the preceding year this revenue had been only 300,000 dollars ; in the subsequent year it rose to 574,000 . * It must however be observed that the King's object ...
... remarkable that the revenue derived from it almost immediately doubled . In the preceding year this revenue had been only 300,000 dollars ; in the subsequent year it rose to 574,000 . * It must however be observed that the King's object ...
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... remarkable that during all this time - so strict was the discipline in the Royal Household - the King's imminent danger remained a secret not only to most of the Foreign Ministers at Berlin , but also to most members of the Royal Family ...
... remarkable that during all this time - so strict was the discipline in the Royal Household - the King's imminent danger remained a secret not only to most of the Foreign Ministers at Berlin , but also to most members of the Royal Family ...
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... remarkable abilities . ' Charles Yorke , ' says our author , was , like Lord Bacon , most fortunate in his mother , ' and though he was the only genius among her sons , the least of the rest would have been a star in any other family ...
... remarkable abilities . ' Charles Yorke , ' says our author , was , like Lord Bacon , most fortunate in his mother , ' and though he was the only genius among her sons , the least of the rest would have been a star in any other family ...
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Page 445 - Glowing all over noble shame ; and all Her falser self slipt from her like a robe, And left her woman, lovelier in her mood Than in her mould that other, when she came From barren deeps to conquer all with love ; And down the streaming crystal dropt ; and she Far-fleeted by the purple island-sides, Naked, a double light in air and wave, To meet her Graces, where they deck'd her out For worship without end ; nor end of mine, Stateliest, for thee ! but mute she glided forth, Nor glanced behind her,...
Page 128 - ... to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
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Page 121 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 451 - Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire ; And come, for Love is of the valley, come, For Love is of the valley, come thou down And find him ; by the happy threshold, he, Or hand in hand with...
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