The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William 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, 1863 - English literature |
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... traveller , it takes him a day to reach it . Herds of white cattle , flocks of sheep , droves of swine and of horses , give occasional diversity and animation to what would otherwise be a monotonous scene . Villages , few and far ...
... traveller , it takes him a day to reach it . Herds of white cattle , flocks of sheep , droves of swine and of horses , give occasional diversity and animation to what would otherwise be a monotonous scene . Villages , few and far ...
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... traveller , than to associate the Magyar element in Hungary with civilisa- tion . The noble palatial residences which adorn Pesth and other principal towns in Hungary are the work of German architects , for a Magyar village very much ...
... traveller , than to associate the Magyar element in Hungary with civilisa- tion . The noble palatial residences which adorn Pesth and other principal towns in Hungary are the work of German architects , for a Magyar village very much ...
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... traveller in Palestine once remarked to the writer of this article , ' how little we know of the fauna and flora of this country , and how rich and new they are . ' As a practical illustration of the truth of this observation , we may ...
... traveller in Palestine once remarked to the writer of this article , ' how little we know of the fauna and flora of this country , and how rich and new they are . ' As a practical illustration of the truth of this observation , we may ...
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... travellers who year by year visit the Holy Land are led thither by associations of a different nature from those which engross the mind of the naturalist ; they are ab- sorbed in questions of an historical or topographical character ...
... travellers who year by year visit the Holy Land are led thither by associations of a different nature from those which engross the mind of the naturalist ; they are ab- sorbed in questions of an historical or topographical character ...
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... travellers , for there the physician Cramer breathed his last . The result of the combined labours of these travellers was published in three separate works , which contain a vast amount of information relative to the countries visited ...
... travellers , for there the physician Cramer breathed his last . The result of the combined labours of these travellers was published in three separate works , which contain a vast amount of information relative to the countries visited ...
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Page 188 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 63 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 238 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 187 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 209 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 50 - Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 153 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 74 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 70 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.