The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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Pagina 10
... ( and it is much improved ) in which the passage appears in his completed task , is taken from the commencement of the fourth canto . It < Whilst I. Whilst thus in fervent toil the artisan His warlike 10 Mr. Wiffen's Translation of Tasso .
... ( and it is much improved ) in which the passage appears in his completed task , is taken from the commencement of the fourth canto . It < Whilst I. Whilst thus in fervent toil the artisan His warlike 10 Mr. Wiffen's Translation of Tasso .
Pagina 21
... appears to have favoured this last opinion , † and it is openly maintained in a supplementary note on the Dictionnaire Philosophique , perhaps written , but at least known and uncontradicted by him . ‡ The ingenious essay of Gibbons ...
... appears to have favoured this last opinion , † and it is openly maintained in a supplementary note on the Dictionnaire Philosophique , perhaps written , but at least known and uncontradicted by him . ‡ The ingenious essay of Gibbons ...
Pagina 22
... the policy and relations of the Italian states ; and appears to have cultivated an intercourse with the Spanish government at Milan , in some hope of of personal advantage ; but the Spaniards , according to 22 L'Homme au Masque de Fer .
... the policy and relations of the Italian states ; and appears to have cultivated an intercourse with the Spanish government at Milan , in some hope of of personal advantage ; but the Spaniards , according to 22 L'Homme au Masque de Fer .
Pagina 28
... appears to have been very lightly regarded . After a confinement of nearly ten months , the unfortunate Italian began to affect ( perhaps actually to experience ) those wanderings of mind with which the secret victims of state - policy ...
... appears to have been very lightly regarded . After a confinement of nearly ten months , the unfortunate Italian began to affect ( perhaps actually to experience ) those wanderings of mind with which the secret victims of state - policy ...
Pagina 36
... appears , while he considers the detached members of the body , and particularly the head , as of greater weight than their bulk of water , acknowledges our bodies in the aggregate to be of less specific gravity , by reason of the ...
... appears , while he considers the detached members of the body , and particularly the head , as of greater weight than their bulk of water , acknowledges our bodies in the aggregate to be of less specific gravity , by reason of the ...
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Pagina 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Pagina 90 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Pagina 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Pagina 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Pagina 249 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Pagina 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Pagina 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Pagina 241 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.