The Quarterly Review, Volume 166William 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, 1888 - English literature |
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... becomes the reviewer of the ' Life and Letters ' of him who first tried to show how it works in Nature , we must turn to our main business , and the autobiographical sketch , before- mentioned , immediately demands notice . A more ...
... becomes the reviewer of the ' Life and Letters ' of him who first tried to show how it works in Nature , we must turn to our main business , and the autobiographical sketch , before- mentioned , immediately demands notice . A more ...
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... become an ornithologist . ' Then chemistry , towards the close of his school - life , had its share of attention , for thereat his elder brother Erasmus worked hard ; and so much was the younger one interested in a study so ...
... become an ornithologist . ' Then chemistry , towards the close of his school - life , had its share of attention , for thereat his elder brother Erasmus worked hard ; and so much was the younger one interested in a study so ...
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... become acquainted with the marvels of its fauna , we may be sure that chapters , even more interesting than those which treat of South America , would have been found in the ' Journal of Researches . ' It was the same with the parts of ...
... become acquainted with the marvels of its fauna , we may be sure that chapters , even more interesting than those which treat of South America , would have been found in the ' Journal of Researches . ' It was the same with the parts of ...
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... becoming a thorough - paced Cockney , and I glory in thoughts that I shall be here for the next six months . ' But , with all this prospect of rest and happiness , now begins the painful part of the story . He fell into bad health , and ...
... becoming a thorough - paced Cockney , and I glory in thoughts that I shall be here for the next six months . ' But , with all this prospect of rest and happiness , now begins the painful part of the story . He fell into bad health , and ...
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... become his vocation . True it is that he was , so far as this world's goods go , in easy circumstances . He had not to work for his bread , or even for his modest luxuries . But this is all the more , we think , to his credit . How many ...
... become his vocation . True it is that he was , so far as this world's goods go , in easy circumstances . He had not to work for his bread , or even for his modest luxuries . But this is all the more , we think , to his credit . How many ...
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Page 323 - The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors :— No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest; Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever, — or else swoon to death.
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Page 325 - I know nothing I have read nothing and I mean to follow Solomon's directions of 'get Wisdom — get understanding' — I find cavalier days are gone by. I find that I can have no enjoyment in the World but continual drinking of Knowledge...
Page 20 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
Page 320 - What though I leave this dull and earthly mould, Yet shall my spirit lofty converse hold With after times. — The patriot shall feel My stern alarum, and unsheath his steel ; Or in the senate thunder out my numbers, To startle princes from their easy slumbers. The sage will mingle with each...