The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Τόμος 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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Σελίδα 18
... secure to himself a balance of celebrity . Johnson aspired to be the arbiter of literary fame ; and he accordingly inveighed against the allegorical construction of the Absalom and Ahi- tophel . But the preachments of the Puritans had ...
... secure to himself a balance of celebrity . Johnson aspired to be the arbiter of literary fame ; and he accordingly inveighed against the allegorical construction of the Absalom and Ahi- tophel . But the preachments of the Puritans had ...
Σελίδα 33
... secure she stands , Eternal house not built with mortal hands ! A sure defence against the infernal gate , A patent during pleasure of the State ! ' But the implied sarcasm of an Act of Parliament Religion ' is very unfortunate in its ...
... secure she stands , Eternal house not built with mortal hands ! A sure defence against the infernal gate , A patent during pleasure of the State ! ' But the implied sarcasm of an Act of Parliament Religion ' is very unfortunate in its ...
Σελίδα 88
... secure the dominion of the Euxine and to exert the most important influence over all the surrounding countries , both of Asia and Europe . At the present moment , when the eyes of the whole civilised world are bent on this remote corner ...
... secure the dominion of the Euxine and to exert the most important influence over all the surrounding countries , both of Asia and Europe . At the present moment , when the eyes of the whole civilised world are bent on this remote corner ...
Σελίδα 101
... secure him from immediate pursuit and here he once more assembled a small fleet and army , with which he , the next spring , continued his progress along the coast of Circassia . The wild tribes that occupied this tract had never ...
... secure him from immediate pursuit and here he once more assembled a small fleet and army , with which he , the next spring , continued his progress along the coast of Circassia . The wild tribes that occupied this tract had never ...
Σελίδα 111
... deficiency previously felt of a secure anchorage for shipping , at a place which seems marked by nature for one of the principal - points of communication between Europe and the East . Even 1855 . 111 The Tauric Chersonese .
... deficiency previously felt of a secure anchorage for shipping , at a place which seems marked by nature for one of the principal - points of communication between Europe and the East . Even 1855 . 111 The Tauric Chersonese .
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Σελίδα 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Σελίδα 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Σελίδα 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Σελίδα 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Σελίδα 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Σελίδα 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Σελίδα 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Σελίδα 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Σελίδα 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Σελίδα 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!