The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... side . Scarcely any man has forgotten the character of Zimri , but few men re- member the personages of the Rehearsal . Rochester , at once a poet and a patron of poets , was at first Dryden's friend and then his enemy . Jealous of the ...
... side . Scarcely any man has forgotten the character of Zimri , but few men re- member the personages of the Rehearsal . Rochester , at once a poet and a patron of poets , was at first Dryden's friend and then his enemy . Jealous of the ...
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... side as a sycophant who sold first his politics and then his religion to the Court ; and he is defended upon another as a conscientious seceder from the Anglican Church . The secession of the Court was , no doubt , very infectious ; and ...
... side as a sycophant who sold first his politics and then his religion to the Court ; and he is defended upon another as a conscientious seceder from the Anglican Church . The secession of the Court was , no doubt , very infectious ; and ...
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... side of India . It is by present processes somewhat tedious and costly to separate ; but , on the other hand , it possesses the double value of being calculated from its fineness to answer many of the purposes of flax , while , from its ...
... side of India . It is by present processes somewhat tedious and costly to separate ; but , on the other hand , it possesses the double value of being calculated from its fineness to answer many of the purposes of flax , while , from its ...
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... side of India , as in the ravines at Kandalla , and in the jungles near Coorg , and from which the natives manufacture bark sacks in a very ingenious manner . ' A branch is cut corresponding to the length and diameter of the sack wanted ...
... side of India , as in the ravines at Kandalla , and in the jungles near Coorg , and from which the natives manufacture bark sacks in a very ingenious manner . ' A branch is cut corresponding to the length and diameter of the sack wanted ...
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... side of the Channel . 6 ' A man does not die of this or that malady , ' one of the cleverest physicians in Europe is in the habit of affirming ; he ' dies of his own weakness and inability to resist disease . ' And so with governments ...
... side of the Channel . 6 ' A man does not die of this or that malady , ' one of the cleverest physicians in Europe is in the habit of affirming ; he ' dies of his own weakness and inability to resist disease . ' And so with governments ...
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Seite 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Seite 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Seite 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Seite 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Seite 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Seite 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Seite 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Seite 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Seite 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Seite 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!