The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, 70. kötet;1790. kötetTobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1790 |
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... should place him below Horace in his Epistles , and Boileau in his Odes . His fpirit is the artificial exertion , the laboured activity of a mind ill - attuned to poetry ; and he is feldom perfectly at home , but in the little effufions ...
... should place him below Horace in his Epistles , and Boileau in his Odes . His fpirit is the artificial exertion , the laboured activity of a mind ill - attuned to poetry ; and he is feldom perfectly at home , but in the little effufions ...
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... should appear that the western islands were really peopled by Piks or Norwegians , the prevalence of Celtic language will fhow , that the Celts were at least conquerors in literature , and defpotically im- pofed their language on their ...
... should appear that the western islands were really peopled by Piks or Norwegians , the prevalence of Celtic language will fhow , that the Celts were at least conquerors in literature , and defpotically im- pofed their language on their ...
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Tobias Smollett. cutors the fame as before . It is , we should fuppofe , of nearly the fame antiquity as the preceding . A curious extract , from Mr. Walker's Memoirs of the Irifh Bards , is prefixed . He obferves that , The ftory is ...
Tobias Smollett. cutors the fame as before . It is , we should fuppofe , of nearly the fame antiquity as the preceding . A curious extract , from Mr. Walker's Memoirs of the Irifh Bards , is prefixed . He obferves that , The ftory is ...
62. oldal
... should have been found in an obfcure corner in Devonshire , with the fecond fer- mon ( fee p . 12. ) in his pocket , merely by accident . He cer- tainly fought after Mr. Badcock , was affifted ably by him , and the refult we well know ...
... should have been found in an obfcure corner in Devonshire , with the fecond fer- mon ( fee p . 12. ) in his pocket , merely by accident . He cer- tainly fought after Mr. Badcock , was affifted ably by him , and the refult we well know ...
63. oldal
... should not coní- der as fuperfluous . Of this kind in the following article : ADORATION , the act of rendering divine honours , or of addrething a being as fuppofing it a god . The word is compound- ed of ad , to , and os oris , the ...
... should not coní- der as fuperfluous . Of this kind in the following article : ADORATION , the act of rendering divine honours , or of addrething a being as fuppofing it a god . The word is compound- ed of ad , to , and os oris , the ...
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404. oldal - His left hand is employed grasping the sword by the handle ; about fourteen inches of the blade is covered with whipcord. This part he takes in his right hand, without any danger of being hurt by it ; and, though the edges of the lower part of the sword are as sharp as a razor, he carries it without a scabbard.
484. oldal - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
418. oldal - ... fawningly against the breast of a man, who had attracted his notice among the crowd, and delivered the book to him. The dog immediately returned to the place where he had landed, and watched with great attention for all the things that came from the wrecked vessel, seizing • them, and endeavouring to bring them to land.
423. oldal - It has been the chief aim of all my attempts to reconcile and endear man to man: I love my country and contemporaries to a degree of...
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521. oldal - is almost the only lawful king in the world, because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people.