The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 145-146Theodore Foster, 1878 |
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Page iii
... Lord Melbourne , 120 . Hegel on Macchiavelli's ' Prince , ' 2 . Henry ... Byron , 107 ; im prudence and contempt of form , 108 ; the dagger story , ib ... Lord's Day , the observance of , enacted by the Long Parliament , 244 ...
... Lord Melbourne , 120 . Hegel on Macchiavelli's ' Prince , ' 2 . Henry ... Byron , 107 ; im prudence and contempt of form , 108 ; the dagger story , ib ... Lord's Day , the observance of , enacted by the Long Parliament , 244 ...
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... Lord Salisbury's despatch , 296 ; money indemnity , 297 ; change in the ... Byron's obligations to ' Faust , ' 77 . resentative heroes , ib . Tyndall ... Lord , policy in India , 223 . Wellington , the Duke of , his public testimony about ...
... Lord Salisbury's despatch , 296 ; money indemnity , 297 ; change in the ... Byron's obligations to ' Faust , ' 77 . resentative heroes , ib . Tyndall ... Lord , policy in India , 223 . Wellington , the Duke of , his public testimony about ...
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... Lord Byron , and , in his person , modern poetry , which is the offspring of romantic art ! What decadence , good heavens and what a melancholy thing is old age , since it can make the most plastic of modern poets sink down to these ...
... Lord Byron , and , in his person , modern poetry , which is the offspring of romantic art ! What decadence , good heavens and what a melancholy thing is old age , since it can make the most plastic of modern poets sink down to these ...
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... Lord Byron spoke of her , on her death in 1818 , as the best , and kindest , and ablest female I ever knew , old or young . ' To have been the mother of Lord Melbourne and Lady Palmerston was as proud a boast as to have been the mother ...
... Lord Byron spoke of her , on her death in 1818 , as the best , and kindest , and ablest female I ever knew , old or young . ' To have been the mother of Lord Melbourne and Lady Palmerston was as proud a boast as to have been the mother ...
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... Lord Grey and Whitbread to Canning ; but on March 19th , 1812 , Lord Boringdon ( af- terwards Lord Morley ) moved an address to the Regent for the formation of an adminis- tration ... ( Lord Byron ) heard of 1878 . 107 Lord Melbourne . 6 ...
... Lord Grey and Whitbread to Canning ; but on March 19th , 1812 , Lord Boringdon ( af- terwards Lord Morley ) moved an address to the Regent for the formation of an adminis- tration ... ( Lord Byron ) heard of 1878 . 107 Lord Melbourne . 6 ...
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Page 11 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 105 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Page 119 - And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but...
Page 89 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 187 - With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms...
Page 19 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent : 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 108 - And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone...
Page 15 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 105 - Calypso once each heart alarm'd, Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still, and stranger flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create, As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.
Page 280 - On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees...