The Quarterly Review, Volume 19J. Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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... probably to himself that he alludes in saying a person of his acquaintance spent almost forty years , ' in gathering and amassing materials for an hortulan design to so enormous an heap as to fill some thousand pages , and yet be ...
... probably to himself that he alludes in saying a person of his acquaintance spent almost forty years , ' in gathering and amassing materials for an hortulan design to so enormous an heap as to fill some thousand pages , and yet be ...
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... probably for a supposed vir- tue in consequence of its name Carduus Maria , or our Lady's milky thistle , which made it be esteemed a proper diet for nurses . The bur also he calls delicate and wholesome , when young . The young leaves ...
... probably for a supposed vir- tue in consequence of its name Carduus Maria , or our Lady's milky thistle , which made it be esteemed a proper diet for nurses . The bur also he calls delicate and wholesome , when young . The young leaves ...
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... probably be the issue of suffering those shops to be in the Citty , was look'd on as a prophecy . The poore inhabitants were dispers'd about St. George's Fields , and Moorefields , as far as Highgate , and severall miles in circle ...
... probably be the issue of suffering those shops to be in the Citty , was look'd on as a prophecy . The poore inhabitants were dispers'd about St. George's Fields , and Moorefields , as far as Highgate , and severall miles in circle ...
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... probably have accepted it for the sake of his double claim . " The Sylva has no beauties of style to recommend it , and none of those felicities of expression by which the writer stamps upon your memory his meaning in all its force ...
... probably have accepted it for the sake of his double claim . " The Sylva has no beauties of style to recommend it , and none of those felicities of expression by which the writer stamps upon your memory his meaning in all its force ...
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... , as in no great length of time it will probably do the political , barrier , or line of de marcation between the two countries . are are not improving so fast as our interior . Indeed 58 Birkbeck's Notes on America .
... , as in no great length of time it will probably do the political , barrier , or line of de marcation between the two countries . are are not improving so fast as our interior . Indeed 58 Birkbeck's Notes on America .
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Page 202 - We have imagined for the mighty dead ; All lovely tales that we have heard or read : An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. Nor do we merely feel these essences For one short hour ; no, even as the trees That whisper round a temple become soon Dear as the temple's self, so does the moon, The passion poesy, glories infinite...
Page 217 - The beings of the mind are not of clay ; Essentially immortal, they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And more beloved existence : that which Fate Prohibits to dull life, in this our state Of mortal bondage, by these spirits supplied First exiles, then replaces what we hate ; Watering the heart whose early flowers have died, And with a fresher growth replenishing the void.
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Page 201 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in ; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season ; the mid forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead...