The Quarterly Review, Band 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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... 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 canoe ...
... 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 canoe ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ; and in fact as soon as familiarity bas established the sufficient adjustment and balance of the body , as well as the power of guiding the movements by the position of the head and neck , it becomes as easy to vary the postures ...
... land ; and in fact as soon as familiarity bas established the sufficient adjustment and balance of the body , as well as the power of guiding the movements by the position of the head and neck , it becomes as easy to vary the postures ...
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Seite 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!
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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,...
Seite 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...
Seite 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Seite 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.