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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Page 42
... chief claims rest upon Indian service will every day become more doubtful .'— p . 82 . It is difficult to reconcile these passages with the comparison drawn in page 75 between servants of the East India Company who may take charge of ...
... chief claims rest upon Indian service will every day become more doubtful .'— p . 82 . It is difficult to reconcile these passages with the comparison drawn in page 75 between servants of the East India Company who may take charge of ...
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... chief governor unnecessary , even if it were possible . Were the spirit of Sir John Malcolm's suggestions adopted , the administra- tion , both at home and abroad , would be placed exclusively in the hands of persons who had served in ...
... chief governor unnecessary , even if it were possible . Were the spirit of Sir John Malcolm's suggestions adopted , the administra- tion , both at home and abroad , would be placed exclusively in the hands of persons who had served in ...
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... chief executive authority should , in all cases , be intrusted to the talent and responsibility of an individual . The Civil Servant , on the contrary , proposes ( page 18 , ) that the gover- nor - general should be assisted by a privy ...
... chief executive authority should , in all cases , be intrusted to the talent and responsibility of an individual . The Civil Servant , on the contrary , proposes ( page 18 , ) that the gover- nor - general should be assisted by a privy ...
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... chief part of their strength ) and leave an entrance for his men . Upon which resolution , Amurath commanded the archers to give the first charge ; which they couragiously per- formed . At which time , the Turks army gave ground a ...
... chief part of their strength ) and leave an entrance for his men . Upon which resolution , Amurath commanded the archers to give the first charge ; which they couragiously per- formed . At which time , the Turks army gave ground a ...
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... chief captains , taking view of the dead bodies , which without number lay on heaps in the field like mountains , a Christian souldier , sore wounded , and all bloody , seeing him , in staggering manner arose ( as if it had been from ...
... chief captains , taking view of the dead bodies , which without number lay on heaps in the field like mountains , a Christian souldier , sore wounded , and all bloody , seeing him , in staggering manner arose ( as if it had been from ...
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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.
Page 352 - Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Page 98 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
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.