The Quarterly Review, Volumen34William 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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... means of judging how he manages it ; and as we think that in matters of mere taste , the reader is more likely to form his opinion upon the specimens presented to him , according to his own feeling than ours , we shall abstain from all ...
... means of judging how he manages it ; and as we think that in matters of mere taste , the reader is more likely to form his opinion upon the specimens presented to him , according to his own feeling than ours , we shall abstain from all ...
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... means any thing , means neck or every thing ; and several other similar sayings , to the full as silly , but much too filthy for citation . If such glaring absurdities do not occur in our alliterative poetical phraseology , still the ...
... means any thing , means neck or every thing ; and several other similar sayings , to the full as silly , but much too filthy for citation . If such glaring absurdities do not occur in our alliterative poetical phraseology , still the ...
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... means any thing , means neck or every thing ; and several other similar sayings , to the full as silly , but much too filthy for citation . If such glaring absurdities do not occur in our alliterative poetical phraseology , still the ...
... means any thing , means neck or every thing ; and several other similar sayings , to the full as silly , but much too filthy for citation . If such glaring absurdities do not occur in our alliterative poetical phraseology , still the ...
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... means of steel springs , that he could take his meals without uncovering his face , a peremptory order having been given , that , if he dis- closed his features , he should be instantly put to death . The minister , Louvois , paid him a ...
... means of steel springs , that he could take his meals without uncovering his face , a peremptory order having been given , that , if he dis- closed his features , he should be instantly put to death . The minister , Louvois , paid him a ...
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... means less resistance is opposed , than by presenting the whole breadth of the breast . The upright position a little inclined backwards , ( which , like every other change of posture , must be done deliberately , by the corresponding ...
... means less resistance is opposed , than by presenting the whole breadth of the breast . The upright position a little inclined backwards , ( which , like every other change of posture , must be done deliberately , by the corresponding ...
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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.