The Quarterly Review, Volume 34John Murray, 1826 |
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... seems to have meditated his work in the spirit in which a painter meditates a picture , anxious rather to improve , than exactly to imitate , nature ; -whereas , according to our ideas , and according to those professed by Dryden , he ...
... seems to have meditated his work in the spirit in which a painter meditates a picture , anxious rather to improve , than exactly to imitate , nature ; -whereas , according to our ideas , and according to those professed by Dryden , he ...
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... seems to have meditated his work in the spirit in which a painter meditates a picture , anxious rather to improve , than exactly to imitate , nature ; -whereas , according to our ideas , and according to those professed by Dryden , he ...
... seems to have meditated his work in the spirit in which a painter meditates a picture , anxious rather to improve , than exactly to imitate , nature ; -whereas , according to our ideas , and according to those professed by Dryden , he ...
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... seems only to have been undertaken as a prologue to that of Ariosto . He has , however , interspersed his abridgment with some extracts in the stanza of the original , as specimens of Berni's style , and has discussed his literary ...
... seems only to have been undertaken as a prologue to that of Ariosto . He has , however , interspersed his abridgment with some extracts in the stanza of the original , as specimens of Berni's style , and has discussed his literary ...
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... seem strange , that a person of no greater importance than the duke of Mantua's agent should have been the object of those anxious precautions which distinguished the captivity of this unfortunate . Allowance must , however , be made ...
... seem strange , that a person of no greater importance than the duke of Mantua's agent should have been the object of those anxious precautions which distinguished the captivity of this unfortunate . Allowance must , however , be made ...
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... seems to have been originally of the same opinion . He weighed , however , ten different indi- viduals in water , comparing their weight with the quantity of water displaced by their bodies ; and states the result as follows ...
... seems to have been originally of the same opinion . He weighed , however , ten different indi- viduals in water , comparing their weight with the quantity of water displaced by their bodies ; and states the result as follows ...
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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 243 - 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 | John Murray, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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