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... Principle . Another article in the Westminster Review followed ; and a surrejoinder by Macaulay in the Edin- burgh Review of October , 1829. Macaulay was irritated at what he conceived to be either extreme dulness or gross unfairness on ...
... Principle . Another article in the Westminster Review followed ; and a surrejoinder by Macaulay in the Edin- burgh Review of October , 1829. Macaulay was irritated at what he conceived to be either extreme dulness or gross unfairness on ...
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... principle any reference to the sabbatical ordinance ? Or is it to the order of rhymes that these singular properties are attached ? differ as much in this respect from those of Petrarch , as from a Spenserian or an octave stanza . Away ...
... principle any reference to the sabbatical ordinance ? Or is it to the order of rhymes that these singular properties are attached ? differ as much in this respect from those of Petrarch , as from a Spenserian or an octave stanza . Away ...
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... principle . It consisted of a cleaver hung in a frame like a win- dow ; when any poor wretch got in , down it came with a tremendous din , and took off his head in a twinkling . They got the squire into one of these machines . In order ...
... principle . It consisted of a cleaver hung in a frame like a win- dow ; when any poor wretch got in , down it came with a tremendous din , and took off his head in a twinkling . They got the squire into one of these machines . In order ...
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... principles of criticism . And so ended that discourse ; and not long after we were set on shore again at the Temple - gardens , and there parted company and the same evening I took notes of what had been said , which I have here more ...
... principles of criticism . And so ended that discourse ; and not long after we were set on shore again at the Temple - gardens , and there parted company and the same evening I took notes of what had been said , which I have here more ...
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... principles , would that this is an error to which Cicero be as unreasonable as the demand of has too often given the sanction , both Nebuchadnezzar , who expected his ma- of his precept and of his example . gicians first to tell him his ...
... principles , would that this is an error to which Cicero be as unreasonable as the demand of has too often given the sanction , both Nebuchadnezzar , who expected his ma- of his precept and of his example . gicians first to tell him his ...
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Página 86 - ... man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
Página 125 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 304 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the cause! — for the Church! for the laws!
Página 304 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line ! For God ! for the Cause ! for the Church ! for the Laws ! For Charles King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks. Grasp your pikes, close your ranks; For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall.
Página 312 - To my true king I offered free from stain Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain. For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away, And one dear hope, that was more prized than they. For him I languished in a foreign clime, Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ; Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ; Beheld each night my home...
Página 86 - He the best player ! cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you...
Página 304 - And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod ; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day...
Página 175 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 313 - Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees; Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, Each morning started from the dream to weep; Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave The resting-place I asked, an early grave.
Página 262 - ... gross disrespect. The needy scholar was generally to be seen under the gate of Pembroke, a gate now adorned with his effigy, haranguing a circle of lads, over whom, in spite of his tattered gown and dirty linen, his wit and audacity gave him an undisputed ascendency. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college he .; was the ringleader. Much was pardoned, however, to a youth so highly" distinguished by abilities and acquirements. He had early made himself known by , turning Pope's Messiah...