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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... principles which he had prescribed to himself . Nothing is more remarkable in Homer than the varieties of his style , and their uniform appropriateness to his subject . To illustrate this by the old simile of a river , ( and we know no ...
... principles which he had prescribed to himself . Nothing is more remarkable in Homer than the varieties of his style , and their uniform appropriateness to his subject . To illustrate this by the old simile of a river , ( and we know no ...
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... principle , the usual position of the swimmer - stretched flat on his face , and the head held as much back on the shoulders as possible is liable to objection . Savages are observed to urge their forward progress in an attitude nearly ...
... principle , the usual position of the swimmer - stretched flat on his face , and the head held as much back on the shoulders as possible is liable to objection . Savages are observed to urge their forward progress in an attitude nearly ...
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... principle of husbanding the strength , and rendering the power of recruiting it easy . The speed , according to the new method , is no doubt diminished , but security is much more important than speed , and the new plan is not exclusive ...
... principle of husbanding the strength , and rendering the power of recruiting it easy . The speed , according to the new method , is no doubt diminished , but security is much more important than speed , and the new plan is not exclusive ...
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... principles . This indeed is great improvement , but the greatest is behind . ' The acme of civili- zation in this art — at least the world has hitherto seen no higher- is when its instruments , causes and principles , after undergoing ...
... principles . This indeed is great improvement , but the greatest is behind . ' The acme of civili- zation in this art — at least the world has hitherto seen no higher- is when its instruments , causes and principles , after undergoing ...
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... principles , than we repeat the letters of the alphabet when we are preparing an oration for parliament . When we con- template the statue of Apollo , we do not descant on the chisel . But those letters and that chisel must have been ...
... principles , than we repeat the letters of the alphabet when we are preparing an oration for parliament . When we con- template the statue of Apollo , we do not descant on the chisel . But those letters and that chisel must have been ...
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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...
Página 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
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.