The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 218A. Constable, 1913 |
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Page 154
... Ireland in the summer of 1697 was the King's reward to Prior for his services at the Hague . But the long - drawn negotiations prevented him from taking up the post in person , and in December of the same year the King sent him with ...
... Ireland in the summer of 1697 was the King's reward to Prior for his services at the Hague . But the long - drawn negotiations prevented him from taking up the post in person , and in December of the same year the King sent him with ...
Page 281
... Ireland were stayed till further orders ; and a committee framed a declaration advising all the lieges to provide themselves with arms . It was not , however , until the 1st of April that the Parliament definitely decided to enforce its ...
... Ireland were stayed till further orders ; and a committee framed a declaration advising all the lieges to provide themselves with arms . It was not , however , until the 1st of April that the Parliament definitely decided to enforce its ...
Page 464
... Ireland was never out of sight . The Land League , the imprisonment of Parnell in Kilmainham , Coercion Acts , Arrears Acts , the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke , Home Rule , the Pigott forgeries , year after year in ...
... Ireland was never out of sight . The Land League , the imprisonment of Parnell in Kilmainham , Coercion Acts , Arrears Acts , the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke , Home Rule , the Pigott forgeries , year after year in ...
Page 465
... Ireland . It is true that the light shines from the back stairs , but it is well turned on . It is right that this part of Labouchere's life should be fully set out as it is in this book , if only in recognition of the pains which he ...
... Ireland . It is true that the light shines from the back stairs , but it is well turned on . It is right that this part of Labouchere's life should be fully set out as it is in this book , if only in recognition of the pains which he ...
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... Ireland too : Ireland was a pawn in the game . The phrase is his own , and the game was the complete radicalisation of England with Mr. Chamberlain as its leader . This apparently was his one great constructive idea , and when it ...
... Ireland too : Ireland was a pawn in the game . The phrase is his own , and the game was the complete radicalisation of England with Mr. Chamberlain as its leader . This apparently was his one great constructive idea , and when it ...
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Page 283 - old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of ' fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, ' and persons of quality : do you think that the spirits of such ' base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentle' men that have honour and courage and resolution in them
Page 31 - It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation ; and lastly that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a
Page 114 - of translation.' ' It were as wise [he said] to cast a violet ' into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle ' of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language ' into another the creations of a poet.
Page 269 - E se ben ti ricordi, e vedi lume, Vedrai te simigliante a quella inferma, Che non può trovar posa in su le piume. Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma.
Page 206 - of the Democratic party that the federal government has ' no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, ' except for the purposes of revenue only,' and although the Republicans ' reaffirmed the American doctrine of
Page 121 - Aurengzebe ' embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse : ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day.
Page 116 - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one-half by lazy sleep possest, And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast. Eternal troubles haunt thy anxious mind, Whose cause and
Page 202 - : ' Brief, on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight. And go with the hour. ' Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—O hark ! A fleet of bells set sails, And go with the dark. ' Sudden the cold airs swing. Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies with the cloud.
Page 118 - To cite another case, the following lines of ' Paradise Lost ' may be compared with the treatment accorded by Euripides to the same subject : 'Oh, why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as Angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 365 - it. Sir, as you would a guinea, into small coin ?—which done—let the father of confusion puzzle you if he can ; or put a different idea either into your head, or your reader's head, if he knows how.