The Quarterly review, Volume 34Murray, 1826 |
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... land ; whence a short space My words detain thy audience . When her sire From life departed , and in servitude The city , dedicate to Bacchus , mourned , Long time she went a wanderer through the world . Aloft in Italy's delightful land ...
... land ; whence a short space My words detain thy audience . When her sire From life departed , and in servitude The city , dedicate to Bacchus , mourned , Long time she went a wanderer through the world . Aloft in Italy's delightful land ...
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... land to its progress in water . The German translation of this work , the . named Katlin , who was on deck cutting bread and cheese with a knife , was knocked overboard by the captain gibing the boom . He missed catching hold of the ...
... land to its progress in water . The German translation of this work , the . named Katlin , who was on deck cutting bread and cheese with a knife , was knocked overboard by the captain gibing the boom . He missed catching hold of the ...
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... land , if the con- stancy of our necessities did not render these so familiar as to seem more inherent qualities than voluntary acquirements . We may rely upon it , that the savage regards the equally familiar and successful exercise of ...
... land , if the con- stancy of our necessities did not render these so familiar as to seem more inherent qualities than voluntary acquirements . We may rely upon it , that the savage regards the equally familiar and successful exercise of ...
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... land . Every swimmer knows that by holding himself perfectly still and upright , as if standing , with his head somewhat thrown back so as to rest on the surface , his face will remain entirely above the water , enabling him to enjoy ...
... land . Every swimmer knows that by holding himself perfectly still and upright , as if standing , with his head somewhat thrown back so as to rest on the surface , his face will remain entirely above the water , enabling him to enjoy ...
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... land . The respiratory organs of man , on the contrary , are less conveniently placed for being protruded upwards ; while an entirely different motion in swimming is re- quired from what is usual to his limbs . Moreover , animals have ...
... land . The respiratory organs of man , on the contrary , are less conveniently placed for being protruded upwards ; while an entirely different motion in swimming is re- quired from what is usual to his limbs . Moreover , animals have ...
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admiration afford ancient Anglo-Saxon antiquity appears beautiful Bede bishop British Burke Captain cathedral century character charters church considered degree drama Duke Duke of Orleans effect employed England English equally exertions existing FAUST favour feeling female Florence of Worcester former France French genius give haircloth honour human improvement Ingulphus institutions interest John Kemble Julius Cæsar Kemble king labour land language less living London Lord Madame de Genlis manner means ment Mercia mind mode modern moral nature Nennius never noble novel object observed opinion original perhaps period person poet political possession present principles quadrupeds racters reader reign remarkable respect romance Royal Saxon Chronicle scarcely scene society Spain species spirit Stonesfield success surprized talents taste theatre thing thought tion Tom Jones translation Turketul vols Vortigern whole writer
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Page 210 - 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 516 - 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 575 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 2 - He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them, had his language been English : rugged magnificence is not to be softened : hyperbolical ostentation is not to be repressed, nor sententious affectation to have its points blunted. A translator is to be like his author : it is not his business to excel him.
Page 193 - 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 227 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Page 608 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 368 - I am sorry for H. Fielding's death, not only as I shall read no more of his writings, but I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery.
Page 171 - It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric.
Page 216 - The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give; For those who live to please, must please to live.