University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1863 - Ireland |
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... tell what he saw . The route of this pioneer party was up the Yang - Tsze , which is the Mississippi of China . All the great continents of the world , except Australia , possess immense watery highways , which rise in some back - bone ...
... tell what he saw . The route of this pioneer party was up the Yang - Tsze , which is the Mississippi of China . All the great continents of the world , except Australia , possess immense watery highways , which rise in some back - bone ...
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... tell ? The immobility of China was its proverbial characteristic . For thou- sands of years the empire has present- ed , so far as the existing generation could learn , the same unchanging front to observers from without . Its customs ...
... tell ? The immobility of China was its proverbial characteristic . For thou- sands of years the empire has present- ed , so far as the existing generation could learn , the same unchanging front to observers from without . Its customs ...
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... tell him he need do no more . His future no man can prophesy . What he has done entitles him to rank among the heroes of mankind . We must not close without again commending to our readers the two volumes which we have taken as our text ...
... tell him he need do no more . His future no man can prophesy . What he has done entitles him to rank among the heroes of mankind . We must not close without again commending to our readers the two volumes which we have taken as our text ...
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... tell you , sir , that ' tis partly on the evidence of that same Zekiel Irons that I've arrested you , " said Mr. Justice Lowe . " Zekiel Irons , me ! What - Zekiel Irons charge me with the crime which he was here , not two hours since ...
... tell you , sir , that ' tis partly on the evidence of that same Zekiel Irons that I've arrested you , " said Mr. Justice Lowe . " Zekiel Irons , me ! What - Zekiel Irons charge me with the crime which he was here , not two hours since ...
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... tell you , in confi- dence , she has run herself already into a very sarious predicament . " " Well , sir , I'll be happy to hear you , " answered Toole . " Tis no more , sir , than I expected from your well - known candour , " re ...
... tell you , in confi- dence , she has run herself already into a very sarious predicament . " " Well , sir , I'll be happy to hear you , " answered Toole . " Tis no more , sir , than I expected from your well - known candour , " re ...
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Page 7 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 7 - ... (before) you were abused with diverse stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them: even those are now offered to your view cured, and perfect of their limbs ; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them.
Page 65 - I can never be yours, for I verily believe I have not long to live — but I have left you every shilling of my fortune ;" — upon that she showed me her will — this generosity overpowered me.
Page 163 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 8 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 160 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth...
Page 4 - I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk ? and speak parrot ? and squabble ? swagger ? swear ? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?
Page 7 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 25 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 160 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, (For Christian service, and true chivalry,) As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son...