Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

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Carey and Hart, 1846 - 762 pages
 

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Rob Roy By the Author of Waverley Guy Mannering and The Antiquary
535
The Fortunes of Nigel By the Author of Waverley Kenilworth c
543
GENERAL POLITICS
564
A Song of Triumph By W SOTHEBY Esq
577
Speech of the Right Hon William Windham in the House of Commons May 26 1809
594
Short Remarks on the State of Parties at the Close of the Year 1809
604
The History of Ireland By JOHN ODRISCOL
610
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan By THOMAS
616
An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America
621
Bracebridge Hall or the Humourists By GEOFFREY CRAYON Gent Author of The
637
A Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education Discipline
643
Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn By THOMAS CLARKSON M
651
A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of ViceAdmiral Lord Colling
659
Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay
666
Sketches of India Written by an Officer for FireSide Travellers at Home
674
Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends
693
An Inquiry whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented by our present Sys
700
written by Himself Containing an Account of
707
The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran late Master of the Rolls in Ire
717
Switzerland or a Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country in the Years 1817
725
Rejected Addresses or the New Theatrum Poetarum
732
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Edited by his Son
742
Notice of the Honourable Henry Erskine
757

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Page 339 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ''Hearts of oak...
Page 300 - Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
Page 299 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 298 - On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops I...
Page 300 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 320 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Page 299 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music : Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Page 299 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 403 - O sweet Fancy! let her loose; Summer's joys are spoilt by use, And the enjoying of the Spring Fades as does its blossoming; Autumn's red-lipp'd fruitage too, Blushing through the mist and dew, Cloys with tasting: What do then? Sit thee by the ingle, when The sear faggot blazes bright, Spirit of a winter's night...
Page 350 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...

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