The Quarterly Review, Band 41William 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, 1829 |
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... supposed to make in the course of a year , ( which is equally conjectural , ) he estimates the exportation from the wells to amount to 17,568,000 vis , of twenty - six pounds and a half each . Thirty vis a year is reckoned to be the ...
... supposed to make in the course of a year , ( which is equally conjectural , ) he estimates the exportation from the wells to amount to 17,568,000 vis , of twenty - six pounds and a half each . Thirty vis a year is reckoned to be the ...
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... supposed , the fresh and bleak atmosphere was congenial to him , as resembling his native air . Still , as the custom of that period was , he frequently bestowed on his noble and wealthy subjects the burdensome , but often highly valued ...
... supposed , the fresh and bleak atmosphere was congenial to him , as resembling his native air . Still , as the custom of that period was , he frequently bestowed on his noble and wealthy subjects the burdensome , but often highly valued ...
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... supposed at court ( perhaps with a large allowance for her Majesty's habits of magnificence ) that the excursion would cost thirty thousand pounds . The sum to be raised for the Progress into Scotland was fixed at a hundred thousand ...
... supposed at court ( perhaps with a large allowance for her Majesty's habits of magnificence ) that the excursion would cost thirty thousand pounds . The sum to be raised for the Progress into Scotland was fixed at a hundred thousand ...
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... supposed that even the antipodes had heard of his courtesy and liberality ; the very hills and groves were said to be refreshed with the dew of his aspect ; in his ab- sence the citizens were languishing gyrasoles , in his presence ...
... supposed that even the antipodes had heard of his courtesy and liberality ; the very hills and groves were said to be refreshed with the dew of his aspect ; in his ab- sence the citizens were languishing gyrasoles , in his presence ...
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... supposed to be worth four hundred thousand pounds ; one jeweller ( Herrick ) swore that he had supplied her to the value of thirty - six thou- sand . It accords ill with the supposition of dislike or cold- ness in the king , that her ...
... supposed to be worth four hundred thousand pounds ; one jeweller ( Herrick ) swore that he had supplied her to the value of thirty - six thou- sand . It accords ill with the supposition of dislike or cold- ness in the king , that her ...
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Seite 449 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Seite 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Seite 26 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Seite 242 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Seite 138 - Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Seite 242 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Seite 295 - Twere almost sacrilege to sing Those notes amid the glare of day ; Notes borne by angels' purest wing, And wafted by their breath away. When, sleeping in my grass-grown bed, Shouldst thou still linger here above, Wilt thou not kneel beside my head, And, sister, sing the song I love?
Seite 6 - God (to whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hidden...
Seite 299 - It is a dark and fearful thing ; It steals along with withering tread, Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing. That thought comes o'er me in the hour Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness; 'Tis not the dread of death ; 'tis more, — It is the dread of madness.
Seite 90 - Keeper of the yellow gate, bring us that picture, that we may view it. [Sees the picture.] "Ah, how has he dimmed the purity of the gem, bright as the waves in autumn ! " [To the attendant.'] Transmit our pleasure to the officer of the guard to behead Maouyenshow, and report to us his execution.