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... of the animals , and even of the manners of men ( for these last have been very stationary ) in the countries where poets have principally laid their scenes . If such things have been studied by him , he will not write only for the ...
... of the animals , and even of the manners of men ( for these last have been very stationary ) in the countries where poets have principally laid their scenes . If such things have been studied by him , he will not write only for the ...
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... of the animals , and even of the manners of men ( for these last have been very stationary ) in the countries where poets have principally laid their scenes . If such things have been studied by him , he will not write only for the ...
... of the animals , and even of the manners of men ( for these last have been very stationary ) in the countries where poets have principally laid their scenes . If such things have been studied by him , he will not write only for the ...
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Nor can any one , who weighs well the last scene of the poem , doubt that , if the author had ever completed it , the repentance of the seducer would have come forth and been rewarded as fully as that of his victim , Margaret .
Nor can any one , who weighs well the last scene of the poem , doubt that , if the author had ever completed it , the repentance of the seducer would have come forth and been rewarded as fully as that of his victim , Margaret .
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The wild vagaries of the Mayday - night's scene are also sadly curtailed ; and the interlude of Oberon and Titania's bridal is entirely left out . This last omission is particularly injudicious , because the crowd and tumult of ...
The wild vagaries of the Mayday - night's scene are also sadly curtailed ; and the interlude of Oberon and Titania's bridal is entirely left out . This last omission is particularly injudicious , because the crowd and tumult of ...
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I dare not lift my thoughts towards the spheres , From whence that heavenly sound salutes mine ears ; And yet that anthem's long - remember'd strain Revives the scenes of sinless youth again , 6 Lord F. Gower would improve his version ...
I dare not lift my thoughts towards the spheres , From whence that heavenly sound salutes mine ears ; And yet that anthem's long - remember'd strain Revives the scenes of sinless youth again , 6 Lord F. Gower would improve his version ...
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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.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 34 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray., 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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