The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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Pagina 12
... given a sufficient spe- cimen of Mr. Hunt . " While thus their work went on with lucky speed , And reared rams their horned fronts advance , The antient Foe to man and mortal seed , His wannish eyes upon them bent askaunce ; And when he ...
... given a sufficient spe- cimen of Mr. Hunt . " While thus their work went on with lucky speed , And reared rams their horned fronts advance , The antient Foe to man and mortal seed , His wannish eyes upon them bent askaunce ; And when he ...
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... given , that , if he dis- closed his features , he should be instantly put to death . The minister , Louvois , paid him a visit , and spoke to him standing , and with an attention which implied respect . It was said that , du- ring this ...
... given , that , if he dis- closed his features , he should be instantly put to death . The minister , Louvois , paid him a visit , and spoke to him standing , and with an attention which implied respect . It was said that , du- ring this ...
Pagina 28
... given to allow the prisoner pen and ink , for the pur- pose of writing to Louvois . What effect was produced by any such communication , we do not learn , but the prisoner's remon- strance to St. Mars , that he was not treated like a ...
... given to allow the prisoner pen and ink , for the pur- pose of writing to Louvois . What effect was produced by any such communication , we do not learn , but the prisoner's remon- strance to St. Mars , that he was not treated like a ...
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... given rise to investigations , and perhaps to a correspondence of state , some traces of which might still be extant . None , however , have been discovered . It is said , indeed , that in 1687 , when the letter on Matthioli's ...
... given rise to investigations , and perhaps to a correspondence of state , some traces of which might still be extant . None , however , have been discovered . It is said , indeed , that in 1687 , when the letter on Matthioli's ...
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... given wealth and power to these little islands , so much beyond what nature promised them ; and here find what the course of policy is which can make the most free of empires the strongest . As long as the advantage is so much on our ...
... given wealth and power to these little islands , so much beyond what nature promised them ; and here find what the course of policy is which can make the most free of empires the strongest . As long as the advantage is so much on our ...
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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.