The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen181A. Constable, 1895 |
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... Frederick the Great one evening at Potsdam during a pause in the royal whist . Tell me about this Haidar Ali , ' the king had maliciously said , who is giving you so much trouble in India . ' Sire , ' replied the envoy , in loud and ...
... Frederick the Great one evening at Potsdam during a pause in the royal whist . Tell me about this Haidar Ali , ' the king had maliciously said , who is giving you so much trouble in India . ' Sire , ' replied the envoy , in loud and ...
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... Frederick ' the only . ' Koser's book , as well as a previous work by him on Frederick's early life , is good literature as well as sound history , the narrative and the reflections being kept apart , and not muddled up , shot rubbish ...
... Frederick ' the only . ' Koser's book , as well as a previous work by him on Frederick's early life , is good literature as well as sound history , the narrative and the reflections being kept apart , and not muddled up , shot rubbish ...
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... Frederick is only intelligible on condition of being ' writ large ' — that is , in full length and with finished portraiture . We shall here chiefly illustrate a single side of his activity , recording , by help of the new lights , some ...
... Frederick is only intelligible on condition of being ' writ large ' — that is , in full length and with finished portraiture . We shall here chiefly illustrate a single side of his activity , recording , by help of the new lights , some ...
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... Frederick William was , therefore , entitled to say to Austria : ' No Berg and Jülich , no empress - queen . ' The acquisition of the two duchies was an idea which had haunted Frederick previous to his accession . After his father's ...
... Frederick William was , therefore , entitled to say to Austria : ' No Berg and Jülich , no empress - queen . ' The acquisition of the two duchies was an idea which had haunted Frederick previous to his accession . After his father's ...
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... Frederick non - Prussian Germans are , indeed , often less disposed than English authors , some of whom do not go beyond Charles Knight's mild censure of the conquest of Silesia It was not a very chivalrous movement . ' On the historic ...
... Frederick non - Prussian Germans are , indeed , often less disposed than English authors , some of whom do not go beyond Charles Knight's mild censure of the conquest of Silesia It was not a very chivalrous movement . ' On the historic ...
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Página 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Página 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Página 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Página 491 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
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Página 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Página 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Página 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.