Quarterly Review, Volume 103John Murray, 1858 |
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Pagina 90
... appear no reason for surprise that , when Bute wanted to get wits and ready writers on his side , Smollett should have lent him his services . On the very day of Bute's accession to the Premiership his countryman started the first ...
... appear no reason for surprise that , when Bute wanted to get wits and ready writers on his side , Smollett should have lent him his services . On the very day of Bute's accession to the Premiership his countryman started the first ...
Pagina 93
... appear afterwards in all its bril- liancy . Churchill had begun , somewhat at Smollett's expense , his brief and lurid career . Macpherson's ' Ossian ' was in the first flush of its contested success . Lastly , passing over Percy ...
... appear afterwards in all its bril- liancy . Churchill had begun , somewhat at Smollett's expense , his brief and lurid career . Macpherson's ' Ossian ' was in the first flush of its contested success . Lastly , passing over Percy ...
Pagina 102
... appears to have fancied that , had the Bath waters been the simple natural element , their efficacy would have been quite as great . His views respecting the virtues of cold water included its internal as well as external use , and the ...
... appears to have fancied that , had the Bath waters been the simple natural element , their efficacy would have been quite as great . His views respecting the virtues of cold water included its internal as well as external use , and the ...
Pagina 107
... greatly improving the rental ; and a village having been founded by her for the accommodation of the workpeople it was called Renton , after her future daughter - in- law , law , Miss Renton , who , it appears , Tobias Smollett . 107.
... greatly improving the rental ; and a village having been founded by her for the accommodation of the workpeople it was called Renton , after her future daughter - in- law , law , Miss Renton , who , it appears , Tobias Smollett . 107.
Pagina 108
law , Miss Renton , who , it appears , was the identical ' Miss R- mentioned in ' Humphry Clinker ' as one of the belles of Edin- burgh , by whose charms Jerry Melford was smitten . It is not pleasant to have to add that Smollett's ...
law , Miss Renton , who , it appears , was the identical ' Miss R- mentioned in ' Humphry Clinker ' as one of the belles of Edin- burgh , by whose charms Jerry Melford was smitten . It is not pleasant to have to add that Smollett's ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 69 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Pagina 299 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Pagina 196 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Pagina 298 - Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Pagina 400 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Pagina 207 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Pagina 107 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Pagina 133 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on.
Pagina 281 - I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.