The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, 27. kötetTobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1799 |
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... mind , unceasingly animated by the vivacity or the fervour of his character . There was none of the English gravity about him . I love to meet with fuch exceptions ; but I know that he who is by lively and vigorous conceptions elevated ...
... mind , unceasingly animated by the vivacity or the fervour of his character . There was none of the English gravity about him . I love to meet with fuch exceptions ; but I know that he who is by lively and vigorous conceptions elevated ...
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... minds : many of them , on the con- trary , feem to confirm the oppofite origin . Mr. Kirwan , however , we obferve , joins in the fame opinion with M. St. Fond . Poole's Hole , and the cavern at Castleton , are defcribed at length ; but ...
... minds : many of them , on the con- trary , feem to confirm the oppofite origin . Mr. Kirwan , however , we obferve , joins in the fame opinion with M. St. Fond . Poole's Hole , and the cavern at Castleton , are defcribed at length ; but ...
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... mind . ' But that mind must be perverted and depraved , which can be animated by fcenes of felefs butchery and horrible carnage . The two brothers and the nephew of Frederic are cha- raclerifed with fpirited touches ; and anecdotes are ...
... mind . ' But that mind must be perverted and depraved , which can be animated by fcenes of felefs butchery and horrible carnage . The two brothers and the nephew of Frederic are cha- raclerifed with fpirited touches ; and anecdotes are ...
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... mind first seised , digested , and ripened it in filence . ' The late king of Poland attracts much of our author's at- tention . In drawing the character of that prince , he notices a want of œconomy as his greatest defect . He pays a ...
... mind first seised , digested , and ripened it in filence . ' The late king of Poland attracts much of our author's at- tention . In drawing the character of that prince , he notices a want of œconomy as his greatest defect . He pays a ...
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... mind , and , as I have thought , goodness of heart . Yet , I know from indifputable authority , that he is a profound diffembler , rarely or never speaking his real fen- timents upon any point of moment . On the other hand , he cer ...
... mind , and , as I have thought , goodness of heart . Yet , I know from indifputable authority , that he is a profound diffembler , rarely or never speaking his real fen- timents upon any point of moment . On the other hand , he cer ...
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158. oldal - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
359. oldal - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
162. oldal - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
43. oldal - ... while sucking. Elephants never lie down to give their young ones suck; and it often happens, when the dam is tall, that she is obliged for some time to bend her body towards her young, to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth: consequently, if ever the trunk...
161. oldal - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man * a world without a sun.
160. oldal - Tyrants! in vain ye trace the wizard ring; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No!
159. oldal - He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath, and thunders from on high! Heaven's fiery horse, beneath his warrior form, Paws the light clouds, and gallops on the storm! Wide waves his flickering sword, his bright arms glow Like summer suns, and light the world below! Earth, and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed Are shook, and Nature rocks beneath his tread.
158. oldal - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there.
94. oldal - So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog, or a wild beast into the streets.
392. oldal - They watched all our motions, and accompa- , nied us in whatever we were about to do. If the fea threw up an animal of any kind they devoured it, ere a man of us could come up, to our great...