The Quarterly Review, Volume 141John Murray, 1876 |
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... regard to comfort and convenience is observable . Of Bishop Morton's palace , which must have been erected be- tween the years 1479 and 1486 , a charming fragment remains attached to Lord Salisbury's mansion at Hatfield . It formed the ...
... regard to comfort and convenience is observable . Of Bishop Morton's palace , which must have been erected be- tween the years 1479 and 1486 , a charming fragment remains attached to Lord Salisbury's mansion at Hatfield . It formed the ...
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... regard for gentility . This may help to explain something of that sense of humiliation betrayed in the Sonnets , at his profession as an actor and tragedian ; and the sorrowful tone in which he vindicates his dramatic writings from the ...
... regard for gentility . This may help to explain something of that sense of humiliation betrayed in the Sonnets , at his profession as an actor and tragedian ; and the sorrowful tone in which he vindicates his dramatic writings from the ...
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... regard for others whenever he suspected them , rightly or wrongly , of crossing his path . In 1596 , after the death of Walsingham , when the duties of the Secretary's place were executed by Sir Robert in con- sequence of his father's ...
... regard for others whenever he suspected them , rightly or wrongly , of crossing his path . In 1596 , after the death of Walsingham , when the duties of the Secretary's place were executed by Sir Robert in con- sequence of his father's ...
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... * Swift always regarded his Dublin deanery as an exile , and always refused to regard Ireland as his country , merely because he was ' dropped ' there . life , character , and opinion to bring out in life , Forster's Life of Swift . 43.
... * Swift always regarded his Dublin deanery as an exile , and always refused to regard Ireland as his country , merely because he was ' dropped ' there . life , character , and opinion to bring out in life , Forster's Life of Swift . 43.
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... regard it with Scott as a mere stroke of Swift's peculiar humour , or with Mr. Gladstone as a quasi - forethought for the " down- trodden " Irish Catholics . Shortly after his institution to Laracor , Swift received from the Archbishop ...
... regard it with Scott as a mere stroke of Swift's peculiar humour , or with Mr. Gladstone as a quasi - forethought for the " down- trodden " Irish Catholics . Shortly after his institution to Laracor , Swift received from the Archbishop ...
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Page 505 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 529 - For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
Page 518 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 541 - And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place upon the Table so much Bread and Wine, as he shall think sufficient.
Page 7 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Page 529 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 127 - He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away — no strife to heal — The past unsighed for, and the future sure; 100.
Page 253 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
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Page 49 - I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life.