The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... seem in this respect progressively to recede as civilization advances ; for we find the savages of every climate , however rigorous , in the most perfect and enviable pos- session of a faculty , the want of which renders us a prey to a ...
... seem in this respect progressively to recede as civilization advances ; for we find the savages of every climate , however rigorous , in the most perfect and enviable pos- session of a faculty , the want of which renders us a prey to a ...
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... seems further to imply that family affection is stronger in France than in England ; and that , in the latter country , the sentiment which , in the former , is affection de famille , ' is only ' esprit de famille . ' We think that ...
... seems further to imply that family affection is stronger in France than in England ; and that , in the latter country , the sentiment which , in the former , is affection de famille , ' is only ' esprit de famille . ' We think that ...
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... seems to feel that a nation which makes so noble a use of intel- lect as she does - which , in all her relations of industry , has con- stantly shown such just and comprehensive views - cannot be guilty of the petty duplicity of which ...
... seems to feel that a nation which makes so noble a use of intel- lect as she does - which , in all her relations of industry , has con- stantly shown such just and comprehensive views - cannot be guilty of the petty duplicity of which ...
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... seems to have been much irritated by some strictures published in a con- temporary journal , upon the Comparative skill and industry of England and France , ' ( Edin . Rev. No. LXIV . ) and among a variety of errors points out the ...
... seems to have been much irritated by some strictures published in a con- temporary journal , upon the Comparative skill and industry of England and France , ' ( Edin . Rev. No. LXIV . ) and among a variety of errors points out the ...
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... seems , had the priority in this matter by a few years ; for the Emperor Mathias , in acknowledgment of the service which the Count de Taxis had rendered to his country by forming such an establishment there at his own expense , erected ...
... seems , had the priority in this matter by a few years ; for the Emperor Mathias , in acknowledgment of the service which the Count de Taxis had rendered to his country by forming such an establishment there at his own expense , erected ...
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Page 154 - 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 90 - 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 354 - 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 137 - 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 249 - 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 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 241 - 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.