The Quarterly Review, Volumen57William 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, 1836 |
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... Lord William Melville solicits an introduction to Miss Evelyn , " said Mrs. Carlton , with an air of excessive satisfaction , and a gentleman was seen to advance , on whom the eyes of half the young ladies in the room were instantly ...
... Lord William Melville solicits an introduction to Miss Evelyn , " said Mrs. Carlton , with an air of excessive satisfaction , and a gentleman was seen to advance , on whom the eyes of half the young ladies in the room were instantly ...
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... Lord William , who never went to church . His religious opinions are easily explained ; they are those of numbers of his class and stamp . With little examination , he had decided upon the whole business , as an invention of priests to ...
... Lord William , who never went to church . His religious opinions are easily explained ; they are those of numbers of his class and stamp . With little examination , he had decided upon the whole business , as an invention of priests to ...
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... Lord William is anxious to set out for London , in order to present himself at St. James's , in company with his wife , with a view of silencing the rumours that began to prevail as to their estrangement . Louisa remonstrates , but Lord ...
... Lord William is anxious to set out for London , in order to present himself at St. James's , in company with his wife , with a view of silencing the rumours that began to prevail as to their estrangement . Louisa remonstrates , but Lord ...
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... Lord William ; and with an ironical bow he left the room . And the departing wheels of his carriage and four were soon heard . ' The child dies , and the mother is driven to the very verge of insanity , when her fit of desperation is ...
... Lord William ; and with an ironical bow he left the room . And the departing wheels of his carriage and four were soon heard . ' The child dies , and the mother is driven to the very verge of insanity , when her fit of desperation is ...
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... Lord William Melville is a fair specimen of a class - in other words , that the natural and necessary effect of wealth and rank is to indurate the heart , and that young men of birth and fortune are vain , profligate , and unfeeling ...
... Lord William Melville is a fair specimen of a class - in other words , that the natural and necessary effect of wealth and rank is to indurate the heart , and that young men of birth and fortune are vain , profligate , and unfeeling ...
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Página 356 - Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread : And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Página 486 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 294 - Scotchman's, who refused to be cured of the itch because it made him unco' thoughtful of his wife and bonny Inverary. " But, now, to be serious : let me ask myself what gives me a wish to see Ireland again. The country is a fine one, perhaps ? no. There are good company in Ireland ? no. The conversation there is generally made up of a smutty toast or a bawdy song ; the vivacity supported by some humble cousin, who had just folly enough to earn his dinner.
Página 354 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Página 300 - The reasons you have given me for breeding up your son a scholar, are judicious and convincing : I should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth always lead to pleasure), he may do very well in your college ; for it must be owned, that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better than in any other in Europe. But if he has ambition, strong passions, and an exquisite sensibility...
Página 299 - I should actually be as unfit for the society of my friends at home, as I detest that which I am obliged to partake of here. I can now neither partake of the pleasure of a revel, nor contribute to raise its jollity. I can neither laugh nor drink; have contracted a hesitating disagreeable manner of speaking, and a visage that looks illnature itself; in short, I have thought myself into a settled melancholy, and an utter disgust of all that life brings with it.
Página 295 - The booksellers in Ireland republish every performance there without making the author any consideration. I would, in this respect, disappoint their avarice, and have all the profits of my labour to myself.
Página 399 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Página 300 - If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions, (for passions in youth always lead to pleasure), he may do very well in your college ; for it must be owned, that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better than in any other in Europe. But if he has ambition, strong passions, and an exquisite sensibility of contempt, do not send him there, unless you have no other trade. for him except your own.
Página 298 - I have been some years struggling with a wretched being, with all that contempt which indigence brings with it, with all those strong passions which make contempt insupportable. What then has a gaol that is formidable ? I shall at least have the society of wretches, and such is to me true society.