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Nothing is more remarkable in Homer than the varieties of his style , and their uniform appropriateness to his subject . To illustrate this by the old simile of a river , ( and we know no better , ) his stream of verse is as various as ...
Nothing is more remarkable in Homer than the varieties of his style , and their uniform appropriateness to his subject . To illustrate this by the old simile of a river , ( and we know no better , ) his stream of verse is as various as ...
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While on the subject of these arrests , we may add the remarkable fact , that a lettre de cachet ( obtained for private purposes ) was secretly executed in London on a M. Bertip de Fratteaux , so lately as in 1752 , and the prisoner ...
While on the subject of these arrests , we may add the remarkable fact , that a lettre de cachet ( obtained for private purposes ) was secretly executed in London on a M. Bertip de Fratteaux , so lately as in 1752 , and the prisoner ...
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It is remarkable that during Matthioli's residence in the Isle Ste . Marguerite , there were persons who knew what prisoner was confined there , and made disclosures on the subject , inaccurate in many points , but yet coming so near ...
It is remarkable that during Matthioli's residence in the Isle Ste . Marguerite , there were persons who knew what prisoner was confined there , and made disclosures on the subject , inaccurate in many points , but yet coming so near ...
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23,014 16 0 285 18 3 € 38,970 13 3 Summary of the inbrought commodities , Summary of the surplus of the outcarried above the } 255,214 3 11 It is remarkable that the value of the imported cloth. inbrought commodities amounteth to fell ...
23,014 16 0 285 18 3 € 38,970 13 3 Summary of the inbrought commodities , Summary of the surplus of the outcarried above the } 255,214 3 11 It is remarkable that the value of the imported cloth. inbrought commodities amounteth to fell ...
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It is remarkable that the value of the imported cloth , per piece , is here three times as great as that of the exported ; and it may be inferred that the quality was also superior . It appears then that the fabrication of coarse cloths ...
It is remarkable that the value of the imported cloth , per piece , is here three times as great as that of the exported ; and it may be inferred that the quality was also superior . It appears then that the fabrication of coarse cloths ...
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Page 156 - 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 92 - 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 356 - 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 139 - 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 250 - 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 219 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 233 - 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.