The Quarterly Review, 第 127 卷

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John Murray, 1869
 

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第 192 頁 - And to the fray he rode amain, Followed by all the archer train. The fiery youth, with desperate charge, Made, for a space, an opening large, — The rescued banner rose ; — But darkly closed the war around ; Like pine-tree, rooted from the ground, It sunk among the foes.
第 374 頁 - ... an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of...
第 474 頁 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
第 140 頁 - What can be more curious than the presence of teeth in foetal whales, which when grown up have not a tooth in their heads; or the teeth, which never cut through the gums, in the upper jaws of unborn calves?
第 408 頁 - Norwich ; — a singular illustration of the fickleness of taste, and the truth of the maxim — ' a jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him who hears it.
第 87 頁 - It is neither acid, nor sweet, nor juicy; yet one feels the want of none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact to eat Durians is a new sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience.
第 166 頁 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
第 399 頁 - Don Jose and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other not divorced but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife, Their conduct was exceedingly well-bred...
第 428 頁 - Another ; even now she loved another, And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy, and flew.
第 117 頁 - O come to our Communion Feast : There present in the heart, Not in the hands, th' eternal Priest Will His true self impart...

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