The Quarterly Review, Volumen34William 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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... English undefiled, and his narrative is almost always lucid and succinct. The other may pretend to higher honours, and well deserves the eulogium of Collins, in speaking of Tasso — ' How have I sighed to hear his magic harp By British ...
... English undefiled, and his narrative is almost always lucid and succinct. The other may pretend to higher honours, and well deserves the eulogium of Collins, in speaking of Tasso — ' How have I sighed to hear his magic harp By British ...
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... English idiom , which escape the notice of the general reader amid the splendour of his versification , as false notes often pass undetected in a grand crash of music . There is much to be said in palliation of this in a faithful ...
... English idiom , which escape the notice of the general reader amid the splendour of his versification , as false notes often pass undetected in a grand crash of music . There is much to be said in palliation of this in a faithful ...
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... English literature : and , indeed , we have little doubt that it would have obtained abundant favour , had he only condescended to bestow some of that labour , which he has employed to so much purpose on other parts of his task , in ...
... English literature : and , indeed , we have little doubt that it would have obtained abundant favour , had he only condescended to bestow some of that labour , which he has employed to so much purpose on other parts of his task , in ...
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... English undefiled , and his narrative is almost always lucid and succinct . The other may pretend to higher honours , and well deserves the eulogium of Collins , in speaking of Tasso- How have I sighed to hear his magic harp By British ...
... English undefiled , and his narrative is almost always lucid and succinct . The other may pretend to higher honours , and well deserves the eulogium of Collins , in speaking of Tasso- How have I sighed to hear his magic harp By British ...
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... English public than the Furioso ; for it has been twice translated within these few years . Hoole's translation , in the new influx of verses from the Italian , was succeeded by one from the pen of Mr. J. H. Hunt , which has already ...
... English public than the Furioso ; for it has been twice translated within these few years . Hoole's translation , in the new influx of verses from the Italian , was succeeded by one from the pen of Mr. J. H. Hunt , which has already ...
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Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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,...
Página 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...
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Página 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.