The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Band 27Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1799 |
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... almoft wholly of large lumps , the process by which they convert it into coke is completely different from that employed at Newcastle , where the coal duft on- ly is applied to that purpofe . At Carron foundery , this bufinefs is done ...
... almoft wholly of large lumps , the process by which they convert it into coke is completely different from that employed at Newcastle , where the coal duft on- ly is applied to that purpofe . At Carron foundery , this bufinefs is done ...
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... almoft exploded . One effort of well - meant affection , however , continues , that of pouring down a little wine , or wetting the lips with it by means of a feather . This cannot do fervice , even fhould life remain , and is often pain ...
... almoft exploded . One effort of well - meant affection , however , continues , that of pouring down a little wine , or wetting the lips with it by means of a feather . This cannot do fervice , even fhould life remain , and is often pain ...
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... almoft inftantly fell into a profound fleep . The life of your friend , my dear Bonftetten , now hung upon a very flender thread . Exhaufted as I had been , it was more than probable that my fleep would continue till after fun - fet ...
... almoft inftantly fell into a profound fleep . The life of your friend , my dear Bonftetten , now hung upon a very flender thread . Exhaufted as I had been , it was more than probable that my fleep would continue till after fun - fet ...
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... almoft gratuitously imparted to the body of the people . ' P. 8 . The most menial fervant in a man's houfe is the more valuable for a little knowledge ; whereas an ignorant perfon is generally crafty , fufpicious , and idle : the very ...
... almoft gratuitously imparted to the body of the people . ' P. 8 . The most menial fervant in a man's houfe is the more valuable for a little knowledge ; whereas an ignorant perfon is generally crafty , fufpicious , and idle : the very ...
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... almoft had eve Began to fteal upon creation's face , And finking Phoebus , to the diftant West His beams refigning , all th ' horizon ting'd With varied hues , when enter'd in the cot A matron grave , who , with benignant eye ( But full ...
... almoft had eve Began to fteal upon creation's face , And finking Phoebus , to the diftant West His beams refigning , all th ' horizon ting'd With varied hues , when enter'd in the cot A matron grave , who , with benignant eye ( But full ...
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Seite 158 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Seite 359 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Seite 162 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Seite 43 - ... while sucking. Elephants never lie down to give their young ones suck; and it often happens, when the dam is tall, that she is obliged for some time to bend her body towards her young, to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth: consequently, if ever the trunk...
Seite 161 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man * a world without a sun.
Seite 160 - Tyrants! in vain ye trace the wizard ring; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No!
Seite 159 - He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath, and thunders from on high! Heaven's fiery horse, beneath his warrior form, Paws the light clouds, and gallops on the storm! Wide waves his flickering sword, his bright arms glow Like summer suns, and light the world below! Earth, and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed Are shook, and Nature rocks beneath his tread.
Seite 158 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there.
Seite 94 - So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog, or a wild beast into the streets.
Seite 392 - They watched all our motions, and accompa- , nied us in whatever we were about to do. If the fea threw up an animal of any kind they devoured it, ere a man of us could come up, to our great...