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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8. oldal
... readers . Notwithstanding the badnefs of the road , we got forward at a good pace for nearly an hour ; but night came on , and the clouds feemed to dafh against each other . We heard the tempest growl at a distance . The moon was not ...
... readers . Notwithstanding the badnefs of the road , we got forward at a good pace for nearly an hour ; but night came on , and the clouds feemed to dafh against each other . We heard the tempest growl at a distance . The moon was not ...
14. oldal
... readers ; but they intereft the frivolous and the vulgar more than philofophers or men of reflexion . A fameness of intrigue , and a fimilarity of corruption , are found to prevail in thofe fcenes ; and felf - intereft and ambition are ...
... readers ; but they intereft the frivolous and the vulgar more than philofophers or men of reflexion . A fameness of intrigue , and a fimilarity of corruption , are found to prevail in thofe fcenes ; and felf - intereft and ambition are ...
15. oldal
... readers . Ambition , from the hour of his acceffion to the prefent mo- ment , has been his only real paffion . Neither the faith of treaties , nor the laws of nations , nor the principles of juftice and equity , have ever fufficiently ...
... readers . Ambition , from the hour of his acceffion to the prefent mo- ment , has been his only real paffion . Neither the faith of treaties , nor the laws of nations , nor the principles of juftice and equity , have ever fufficiently ...
38. oldal
... readers must already be fenfible . They are of the first order ; every circumstance is displayed with a force and ac- curacy which painting can not exceed . " ♢ I am aware , ' fays the author , how much I myself stand in need of favor ...
... readers must already be fenfible . They are of the first order ; every circumstance is displayed with a force and ac- curacy which painting can not exceed . " ♢ I am aware , ' fays the author , how much I myself stand in need of favor ...
56. oldal
... reader to fup- pofe , that the Danmonians and the Scythians , only , used four curds , and that of course the former were an eaftern race . That by barbaras gentes , ' the words of Pliny , the Dan- monians are implied , our author , who ...
... reader to fup- pofe , that the Danmonians and the Scythians , only , used four curds , and that of course the former were an eaftern race . That by barbaras gentes , ' the words of Pliny , the Dan- monians are implied , our author , who ...
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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...