The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 78A. Constable, 1843 |
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... feet of black vegetable soil . What makes the difference between the condition of the farmer of the western States , in his rude and immoderate plenty , and the slave who writhes under the literal lash of the Russian slave- driver ...
... feet of black vegetable soil . What makes the difference between the condition of the farmer of the western States , in his rude and immoderate plenty , and the slave who writhes under the literal lash of the Russian slave- driver ...
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... feet above the sea on the slope of a mountain , and which , from its peculiar appearance , is called the Hanging Ice- berg . A most perilous adventure happened to a party of sea- men proceeding on the ice to the shore - a distance of ...
... feet above the sea on the slope of a mountain , and which , from its peculiar appearance , is called the Hanging Ice- berg . A most perilous adventure happened to a party of sea- men proceeding on the ice to the shore - a distance of ...
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... feet in length , to the minute worm fields of ice in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen , from the huge ( vermes ) of half an inch or less , ( the clio of naturalists , ) on which the whale mostly feeds , there is none more interesting ...
... feet in length , to the minute worm fields of ice in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen , from the huge ( vermes ) of half an inch or less , ( the clio of naturalists , ) on which the whale mostly feeds , there is none more interesting ...
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... feet . ' These reindeer were so abundant , that they supplied us with forty carcasses , one of which , ready for dressing , weighed two hundred and eighty- five pounds , with fat on the loins from four to six inches thick . ' They were ...
... feet . ' These reindeer were so abundant , that they supplied us with forty carcasses , one of which , ready for dressing , weighed two hundred and eighty- five pounds , with fat on the loins from four to six inches thick . ' They were ...
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... feet , from a volcanic crater on the land of Victoria - de- scribed as being upwards of twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea . The geological structure of this immense tract of land is also different from that of Spitzbergen ...
... feet , from a volcanic crater on the land of Victoria - de- scribed as being upwards of twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea . The geological structure of this immense tract of land is also different from that of Spitzbergen ...
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Стр. 384 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Стр. 199 - The world generally gives its admiration, not to the man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well.
Стр. 370 - Thick 8vo, cloth, 6s (original price 12s) Published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Стр. 251 - Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me, thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart, Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.
Стр. 229 - The mere choice and arrangement of his words would have sufficed to make his essays classical. For never, not even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.
Стр. 455 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Стр. 251 - Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind, A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can...
Стр. 238 - ... and books on farriery included. In these circumstances, the sale of the Spectator must be considered as indicating a popularity quite as great as that of the most successful works of Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Dickens in our own time.
Стр. 218 - ... fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his palace. London and Bristol had presented the appearance of cities just sacked. Hundreds of families were still in mourning. The prostrate trunks of large trees, and the ruins of houses, still attested, in all the Southern counties, the fury of the blast. The popularity which the simile of the angel enjoyed among Addison's contemporaries has always seemed to us to be...
Стр. 194 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey.