The Quarterly Review, Volume 231William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1919 - English literature |
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... better than tolerable had it not been for the confession of Sir Walter Scott that he was the author of the Waverley Novels . This acknowledgment was elicited from him in this manner . Lord Meadowbank , who sat on his left hand ...
... better than tolerable had it not been for the confession of Sir Walter Scott that he was the author of the Waverley Novels . This acknowledgment was elicited from him in this manner . Lord Meadowbank , who sat on his left hand ...
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... better disposed towards believing . ' From Keswick he rode round Derwentwater on horse- back , and arrived in London near the end of the year 1827. In 1828 he spent his first summer holiday in Scotland and made notes on Aberdeen and ...
... better disposed towards believing . ' From Keswick he rode round Derwentwater on horse- back , and arrived in London near the end of the year 1827. In 1828 he spent his first summer holiday in Scotland and made notes on Aberdeen and ...
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... better known than it is ; and I feel sure that the author must be a scholar of some stand- ing , for he is certainly a shrewd reasoner , and is a master of a pleasing style , to say nothing of having complete command } of the geological ...
... better known than it is ; and I feel sure that the author must be a scholar of some stand- ing , for he is certainly a shrewd reasoner , and is a master of a pleasing style , to say nothing of having complete command } of the geological ...
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... better . The first number of ' The Academy ' was published in 1870 , and received a warm welcome by anticipation in virtue of my father's name , but by the third number the circulation had dropped to less than half . Our letter - books ...
... better . The first number of ' The Academy ' was published in 1870 , and received a warm welcome by anticipation in virtue of my father's name , but by the third number the circulation had dropped to less than half . Our letter - books ...
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... better informed in a wide range of subjects , and he and my father had so much in common that to listen to their talk was a delight . My father knew nothing of music , but that most versatile of men , Sir George Grove , was a constant ...
... better informed in a wide range of subjects , and he and my father had so much in common that to listen to their talk was a delight . My father knew nothing of music , but that most versatile of men , Sir George Grove , was a constant ...
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Page 447 - The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And...
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Page 129 - ... country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him. His position takes the imagination of the country. He is the representative of no constituency, but of the whole people. When he speaks in his true character, he speaks for no special interest. If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its President is of such insight and calibre.
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Page 129 - His is the only national voice in affairs. Let him once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.
Page 200 - Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: " wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
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Page 129 - The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, — it will be from no lack of constitutional powers on its part, but only because the President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion.