The Quarterly Review, Opseg 104William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1858 |
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... period , the Falklands , the Pembrokes , the Northamptons , the Richmonds , or the Hampdens , the Blakes , the Vanes . The objects contended for are nobler and higher . The poetry they read is fresher , sweeter , more lyrical . We have ...
... period , the Falklands , the Pembrokes , the Northamptons , the Richmonds , or the Hampdens , the Blakes , the Vanes . The objects contended for are nobler and higher . The poetry they read is fresher , sweeter , more lyrical . We have ...
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... period like that of our Civil War is intrin- sically favourable to biography from its romantic character . Robert Blake , destined as General and Admiral to play such an important part in that period , was a Somersetshire man . He was ...
... period like that of our Civil War is intrin- sically favourable to biography from its romantic character . Robert Blake , destined as General and Admiral to play such an important part in that period , was a Somersetshire man . He was ...
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... first time , at a period when Cromwell and the Parliamentary chiefs sent ' generals ' on board the fleet over the seamen's heads , and after a revolt of part part of that fleet to the side of the Prince Admiral Blake . 15.
... first time , at a period when Cromwell and the Parliamentary chiefs sent ' generals ' on board the fleet over the seamen's heads , and after a revolt of part part of that fleet to the side of the Prince Admiral Blake . 15.
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... period . In Blake's time the seamen were well paid ; they got nineteen shillings a month per man , and the third part of all prize - money was divided amongst the ships . But from want of organization there were great abuses ; the beer ...
... period . In Blake's time the seamen were well paid ; they got nineteen shillings a month per man , and the third part of all prize - money was divided amongst the ships . But from want of organization there were great abuses ; the beer ...
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... period are , really ( whatever republicans may think of them ) , the triumphs of despotism . It is curious to see in the old pamphlets of that year the hearty spirit with which the people entered into its triumphs . spirit Admiral Blake ...
... period are , really ( whatever republicans may think of them ) , the triumphs of despotism . It is curious to see in the old pamphlets of that year the hearty spirit with which the people entered into its triumphs . spirit Admiral Blake ...
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Stranica 171 - A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes, Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
Stranica 164 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Stranica 339 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations ,and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Stranica 106 - Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII. » The Master of the Rolls suggested that these materials should be selected for publication under competent editors without reference to periodical or chronological arrangement, without mutilation or abridgment, preference being given, in the first instance, to such materials as were most scarce and valuable.
Stranica 43 - sa Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will...
Stranica 40 - Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest.
Stranica 46 - Sufferers for religious and political opinions. 6. Persons distinguished for success in tuition. 7. Eminent physicians and medical practitioners. 8. Artists, musicians, and heralds. 9. Heads of colleges, professors, and principal officers of the university. 10. Benefactors to the university and colleges...
Stranica 106 - Rolls suggested that the editor should give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; but no other note or comment was to be allowed, except what might be necessary to establish the correctness of the text...
Stranica 432 - I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House of Commons again : I never saw so many wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together.