The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 78A. Constable, 1843 |
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... living , the same mixture of indolence and impatience , the same mobility of temperament , which fills his painstaking German neighbour with astonishment , dislike , and self - exaltation . The nobleman of the present day is a linguist ...
... living , the same mixture of indolence and impatience , the same mobility of temperament , which fills his painstaking German neighbour with astonishment , dislike , and self - exaltation . The nobleman of the present day is a linguist ...
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... living longer by always remain- ing in bed . He actually lived , not merely in his chamber , but in his bed , for many years of his life , and his greatest consolation was derived from reading accounts in the papers of people dying by ...
... living longer by always remain- ing in bed . He actually lived , not merely in his chamber , but in his bed , for many years of his life , and his greatest consolation was derived from reading accounts in the papers of people dying by ...
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... living Englishman . Our author recounts a somewhat similar adventure , though not quite so alarming , as having occurred to one of our countrymen of the English factory in his time . He was a merchant of great respectability , and was ...
... living Englishman . Our author recounts a somewhat similar adventure , though not quite so alarming , as having occurred to one of our countrymen of the English factory in his time . He was a merchant of great respectability , and was ...
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... living column , on an average , might have ' been about six yards broad , and as many deep - so that , allow- ing sixteen birds to a cubic yard , there must have been nearly ' four millions of birds on the wing at one time . ' The ...
... living column , on an average , might have ' been about six yards broad , and as many deep - so that , allow- ing sixteen birds to a cubic yard , there must have been nearly ' four millions of birds on the wing at one time . ' The ...
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... living walrus being brought to England in the year 1608. It was carried to the court , and was greatly admired ; but , not long after , it fell sick and died . He describes it of strange docilitie , and apt to be taught . ' The British ...
... living walrus being brought to England in the year 1608. It was carried to the court , and was greatly admired ; but , not long after , it fell sick and died . He describes it of strange docilitie , and apt to be taught . ' The British ...
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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.