The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and PoliticsPrinted, for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison, 1813 |
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... natural an emblem of Justice , that Persius has turned them into an allegory , to express the deci- sions of right and wrong ... nature , all its parts the same , Alike and equal to itself ' tis found , No end and no beginning in a round ...
... natural an emblem of Justice , that Persius has turned them into an allegory , to express the deci- sions of right and wrong ... nature , all its parts the same , Alike and equal to itself ' tis found , No end and no beginning in a round ...
10. oldal
... natural disposition to migration . " But that they should be led by war or conquest , is an ab- surdity : for the first inhabitants could not go to make war upon a people that did not exist , or to con- quer an uninhabited country . It ...
... natural disposition to migration . " But that they should be led by war or conquest , is an ab- surdity : for the first inhabitants could not go to make war upon a people that did not exist , or to con- quer an uninhabited country . It ...
12. oldal
... nature : accordingly we find the species less numerous to the west than to the east of the great range of the Alleghany moun- tains in the same parallels of lati- tude . nerally produces two broods in the season , unless robbed of her ...
... nature : accordingly we find the species less numerous to the west than to the east of the great range of the Alleghany moun- tains in the same parallels of lati- tude . nerally produces two broods in the season , unless robbed of her ...
15. oldal
... natural song is excellent ; but this traveller seems not to have been long enough in America to distin- guish what were the genuine notes : with us mimics do not often suc- ceed but in imitations . I have lit- tle doubt , however , that ...
... natural song is excellent ; but this traveller seems not to have been long enough in America to distin- guish what were the genuine notes : with us mimics do not often suc- ceed but in imitations . I have lit- tle doubt , however , that ...
18. oldal
... of the elegant young baronet . In Portrait of an Artist . — Mrs . Green . Much observation of nature , and a free hand to execute , are visible | since 18 EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET - HOUSE . Exhibition at Somerset-House (con- cluded)
... of the elegant young baronet . In Portrait of an Artist . — Mrs . Green . Much observation of nature , and a free hand to execute , are visible | since 18 EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET - HOUSE . Exhibition at Somerset-House (con- cluded)
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13. oldal - ... are bold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or, at the most, five or six syllables ; generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity ; and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour, or an hour, at a time.
14. oldal - He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.
174. oldal - I fled from courtly bowers ; For well I saw, in halls and towers, That Lust and Pride, The arch-fiend's dearest darkest powers, In state preside. I saw mankind with vice...
14. oldal - Blue-bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of Swallows, or the cackling of Hens ; amidst the simple melody of the...
13. oldal - In measure and accent he faithfully follows his originals ; in force and sweetness of expression he greatly improves upon them. In his native groves, mounted...
14. oldal - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master. He squeaks out like a hurt chicken ; and the hen hurries about, with hanging wings and bristled feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
64. oldal - ... last print of the set I have mentioned, is an ignorant rustic ; and if wit is struck out from the characters in which it is not expected, it is from their acting conformably to their situation and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter is expiring in the agonies of poison, wears a face of solicitude, but it is to save her gold ring, which he is drawing gently from her finger.
242. oldal - I so much desire ; I leave you to determine according to your inclinations, in the choice of the one or the other: or, if neither of them -please you, to refuse them both. My fortunes are too narrow to enable me to make yours...
13. oldal - ... and even HANDSOME. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the INTELLIGENCE he displays in listening, and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really SURPRISING, and mark the peculiarity...
68. oldal - So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown: Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown.