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... The Quarterly Review - Page 249edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...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...level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a pre•mment poet of our own day. a searcher of dark bosoms, and loved to paint characters under the... | |
| George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 pages
...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 raise his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a pre-eminent poet... | |
| George King Matthews - 1866 - 268 pages
...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 raise his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a pre-eminent poet... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 pages
...trenicndous_engagement. Upon many other occasions^ -"Smollett's descriptions ascend to Th<T sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his...like a pre-eminent poet of our own day, a searcher ofdark_b£S£mj,_andlovcd_±a-paint (fLatr, charactergjinder tl;c.. s±£oig_agi±ation "ofTierce arid... | |
| Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - 714 pages
...for Booth, who does not come. Smollett, in his opinion, is, like Byron, "a searcher of dark bosoms" ; and, "in general, there is an air of romance in his...narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life."88 This, apparently, was enough for Scott. It atoned for Smollett's coarseness and bru64 The... | |
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