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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2. oldal
... thing fa- bulous must be banified . A poet ought not rhyme with ener- gy , except it be equations in algebra . Thofe who tread the paths of hiftory muit walk backward , and must begin with the prefent age in order to understand the ...
... thing fa- bulous must be banified . A poet ought not rhyme with ener- gy , except it be equations in algebra . Thofe who tread the paths of hiftory muit walk backward , and must begin with the prefent age in order to understand the ...
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... Things appear indeed to have undergone fome change . Pray be kind enough to inform me where is the palace of the emperor , my fucceffor . Is it ftill on mount Palatine ? For to fay the truth , I no longer know my own country . FRIAR ...
... Things appear indeed to have undergone fome change . Pray be kind enough to inform me where is the palace of the emperor , my fucceffor . Is it ftill on mount Palatine ? For to fay the truth , I no longer know my own country . FRIAR ...
6. oldal
... thing . We fufpect there are certain truths of which we form a vague idea , and to thefe we attribute , by the organs of fpeech , certain founds which we call fcientific terms . With thefe founds we fatisfy our ears . Our mind imagines ...
... thing . We fufpect there are certain truths of which we form a vague idea , and to thefe we attribute , by the organs of fpeech , certain founds which we call fcientific terms . With thefe founds we fatisfy our ears . Our mind imagines ...
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... thing very strikingly original . Our author firft gives the de- fcription of Pikish manners from the Roman authors , and next , as the Piks were Goths , he defcribes the Gothic man- ners in general as illuftrating what the claffical ...
... thing very strikingly original . Our author firft gives the de- fcription of Pikish manners from the Roman authors , and next , as the Piks were Goths , he defcribes the Gothic man- ners in general as illuftrating what the claffical ...
22. oldal
... things not generally known , and contains a fyftem fo different from thofe of later authors , that we cannot follow our enterprising histo- rian with too much care . Reliques of Ir Jh Poetry : confifting of Heroic Poems , Odes , Ele ...
... things not generally known , and contains a fyftem fo different from thofe of later authors , that we cannot follow our enterprising histo- rian with too much care . Reliques of Ir Jh Poetry : confifting of Heroic Poems , Odes , Ele ...
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106. oldal - I have known both hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman ; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost...
107. oldal - I have always remarked that women in all countries are civil, obliging, tender, and humane; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest; and that they do not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant...
256. oldal - A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head. In the middle of this was a horn, or a conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called kirn, or horn, and is only worn in reviews or parades after victory.
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...
256. oldal - I observed, was the head-dress of the governors of provinces. A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head. In the middle of this was a horn, or a conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers.
485. oldal - ... could trust in as a friend, and could love as a brother: This is the man, whom in your heart above all others, you do, you must, honour. SUCH a character, imperfectly as it has now been drawn, all must acknowledge to be formed solely by the influence of steady religion and virtue. It is...
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.