The Quarterly Review, Том 104William 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, 1858 |
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... character . A biographer takes up soldier or poet , saint or king , without any reference to his peculiar qualifications for portraiture , as a poor Dick Tinto executes with equal indifference an Admiral Keppel , a Royal Oak , or a ...
... character . A biographer takes up soldier or poet , saint or king , without any reference to his peculiar qualifications for portraiture , as a poor Dick Tinto executes with equal indifference an Admiral Keppel , a Royal Oak , or a ...
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... character . Robert Blake , destined as General and Admiral to play such an important part in that period , was a Somersetshire man . He was of a good landed family there , said by a tradition in the branch still existing to have come ...
... character . Robert Blake , destined as General and Admiral to play such an important part in that period , was a Somersetshire man . He was of a good landed family there , said by a tradition in the branch still existing to have come ...
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... character was formed , and may be described in a word as Puritanical . The world is now better qualified to understand what such a description implies , than it was for a century and a half after the Restoration . For a long time , it ...
... character was formed , and may be described in a word as Puritanical . The world is now better qualified to understand what such a description implies , than it was for a century and a half after the Restoration . For a long time , it ...
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... character must have been something detestable , and hence we cannot wonder at the view taken of Roundheads by Cavalier wits . But in its genuine state , it was a powerful and worshipful embodiment of an inevitable tendency in the ...
... character must have been something detestable , and hence we cannot wonder at the view taken of Roundheads by Cavalier wits . But in its genuine state , it was a powerful and worshipful embodiment of an inevitable tendency in the ...
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... character in each county ? Individual energy did everything ; for it would be a mistake to suppose that the whole nation was divided with any accuracy . The Puritans , who were the salt of the parliamentary party , had indeed their line ...
... character in each county ? Individual energy did everything ; for it would be a mistake to suppose that the whole nation was divided with any accuracy . The Puritans , who were the salt of the parliamentary party , had indeed their line ...
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Страница 339 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations ,and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Страница 106 - Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII. » The Master of the Rolls suggested that these materials should be selected for publication under competent editors without reference to periodical or chronological arrangement, without mutilation or abridgment, preference being given, in the first instance, to such materials as were most scarce and valuable.
Страница 43 - sa Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will...
Страница 40 - Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest.
Страница 46 - Sufferers for religious and political opinions. 6. Persons distinguished for success in tuition. 7. Eminent physicians and medical practitioners. 8. Artists, musicians, and heralds. 9. Heads of colleges, professors, and principal officers of the university. 10. Benefactors to the university and colleges...
Страница 106 - Rolls suggested that the editor should give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; but no other note or comment was to be allowed, except what might be necessary to establish the correctness of the text...
Страница 432 - I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House of Commons again : I never saw so many wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together.