The London Quarterly Review, Volumen88Theodore Foster, 1851 |
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Página 102 - Yea in this now, while malice frets her hour, Is foretaste given me of that meed divine ; Here undisturbed in this sequestered bower, The friendship of the good and wise is mine; And that green wreath which decks the Bard when dead, That laureate garland crowns my living head.
Página 176 - A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it ; A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states.
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Página 17 - These did not seem to affect him in the slightest ; he only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wound with a striking and peculiar action.
Página 164 - When the cnange of situation which they can endure is great, it is usually attended by some modifications of the form, colour, size, structure, or other particulars ; but the mutations thus superinduced are governed by constant laws, and the capability of so varying forms part of the permanent...
Página 94 - ... dust, visible or invisible, was the plague of her life. I have seen her order the teakettle to be emptied and refilled, because some one had passed across the hearth while it was on the fire preparing for her breakfast. She had indulged these humors till she had formed for herself notions of uncleanness almost as irrational and inconvenient as those of the Hindoos.
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Página 98 - Dear Cottle, Shall I trouble you (I being over the mouth and nose, in doing something of importance, at Lovell's) to send your servant into the market, and buy a pound of bacon, and two quarts of broad beans; and when he carries it down to College St. to desire the maid to dress it for dinner, and tell her I shall be home by three o'clock. Will you come and drink tea with me, and I will endeavour to get the etc. ready for you. Yours affectionately, STC...