The Quarterly Review, Volume 35William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 - English literature |
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... Persians ; for the directors report that , so ably and completely has some inge- nious attorney or other clenched it , that no power on earth can make any alteration therein without unanimous consent ; which would be somewhat difficult ...
... Persians ; for the directors report that , so ably and completely has some inge- nious attorney or other clenched it , that no power on earth can make any alteration therein without unanimous consent ; which would be somewhat difficult ...
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... Persian Life and Manners . From the Journal of a Traveller in the East . 2 vols . post 8vo . Notes and Reflections during a Ramble in Germany . By the Author of " The Story of a Life . " 8vo . 12s , boards . THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . ART ...
... Persian Life and Manners . From the Journal of a Traveller in the East . 2 vols . post 8vo . Notes and Reflections during a Ramble in Germany . By the Author of " The Story of a Life . " 8vo . 12s , boards . THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . ART ...
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... Persian Gulph and the Mediterranean in time of war , as not being maria clausa - and therefore not quite secure from the molestation of the unconscionable power which holds the ' dominion . ' But , in fact , this project of the consul ...
... Persian Gulph and the Mediterranean in time of war , as not being maria clausa - and therefore not quite secure from the molestation of the unconscionable power which holds the ' dominion . ' But , in fact , this project of the consul ...
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... Persia , but now held by Russia , partly by conquest and partly by cession . While Georgia maintained a nominal ... Persians on the one hand , and the Turks on the other - it was , in fact , entirely open to the southward ; but the great ...
... Persia , but now held by Russia , partly by conquest and partly by cession . While Georgia maintained a nominal ... Persians on the one hand , and the Turks on the other - it was , in fact , entirely open to the southward ; but the great ...
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... Persians consider the Alburs ( the sublime , the shining ) as the highest and most ancient of all mountains in the world : the throne of Ormuzd ; the mount of the congregation of the celestial spirits ; the pure region of light ; where ...
... Persians consider the Alburs ( the sublime , the shining ) as the highest and most ancient of all mountains in the world : the throne of Ormuzd ; the mount of the congregation of the celestial spirits ; the pure region of light ; where ...
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Page 453 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save...
Page 67 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
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Page 415 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 353 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 535 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language ; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.
Page 482 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and waken its dormant thunder. Such...
Page 527 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...
Page 535 - Tis not merely The human being's Pride that peoples space With life and mystical predominance ; Since likewise for the stricken heart of Love This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow: yea, a deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn.