The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1826 |
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... Bishop of London , The King - but we must have done . Of all these , perhaps that of Sir Walter Scott is the best . The poet has a face as changeable and various as the characters he draws in his works , and an expression which nothing ...
... Bishop of London , The King - but we must have done . Of all these , perhaps that of Sir Walter Scott is the best . The poet has a face as changeable and various as the characters he draws in his works , and an expression which nothing ...
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... bishop Usher beheld the execution of his royal master . In Scot- land - yard , stood the ancient palace of King Kenneth . King- street , the only thoroughfare , was guarded by a gate ; and another of nobler dimensions , designed by ...
... bishop Usher beheld the execution of his royal master . In Scot- land - yard , stood the ancient palace of King Kenneth . King- street , the only thoroughfare , was guarded by a gate ; and another of nobler dimensions , designed by ...
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... bishop Usher beheld the execution of his royal master . In Seot- land - yard , stood the ancient palace of King Kenneth . King- street , the only thoroughfare , was guarded by a gate ; and another of nobler dimensions , designed by ...
... bishop Usher beheld the execution of his royal master . In Seot- land - yard , stood the ancient palace of King Kenneth . King- street , the only thoroughfare , was guarded by a gate ; and another of nobler dimensions , designed by ...
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... Bishop Cor- bet's time ; for when his host , full of ale and history , ' pointed out the local position of the two armies , Shakspeare was more in the village chronicler's thoughts than Stowe or Hollingshed : ' Besides what of his ...
... Bishop Cor- bet's time ; for when his host , full of ale and history , ' pointed out the local position of the two armies , Shakspeare was more in the village chronicler's thoughts than Stowe or Hollingshed : ' Besides what of his ...
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... Bishop . • In Shakspeare's plays , ' answered the Victor of Blenheim , the only history of those times I ever read . ' It may be said by the rigid worshipper of unadorned truth , that history is rather defaced than embellished by ...
... Bishop . • In Shakspeare's plays , ' answered the Victor of Blenheim , the only history of those times I ever read . ' It may be said by the rigid worshipper of unadorned truth , that history is rather defaced than embellished by ...
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Page 158 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 94 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 358 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 141 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 252 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Page 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Page 221 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 235 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.