The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureTobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1804 |
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... style has the same fault as that of Way's ' Fa- bliaux ; ' it is neither of one age nor of another ; it is a mosaic , whose cement is a modern patent - varnish , whose inlay is a rub- bish of giallo - antico , rusty - iron , and French ...
... style has the same fault as that of Way's ' Fa- bliaux ; ' it is neither of one age nor of another ; it is a mosaic , whose cement is a modern patent - varnish , whose inlay is a rub- bish of giallo - antico , rusty - iron , and French ...
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... style : the words craven , losel , are not revivable , because abuse makes no impression which is not understood : wood ( furious ) , and sell ( saddle ) , are not revivable , because liable to be confounded with words in common use of ...
... style : the words craven , losel , are not revivable , because abuse makes no impression which is not understood : wood ( furious ) , and sell ( saddle ) , are not revivable , because liable to be confounded with words in common use of ...
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... style . Barboza says the original work was preserved in the family of the Aveiros . If this copy has escaped the earthquake , it may pro- bably be traced from the wreck of that family ; and it is greatly to be wished that the Royal ...
... style . Barboza says the original work was preserved in the family of the Aveiros . If this copy has escaped the earthquake , it may pro- bably be traced from the wreck of that family ; and it is greatly to be wished that the Royal ...
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... styles , perhaps improperly , the mission , ' as this term is , by common consent , appropriated to religious enterprises . His residence in Turkey , his voyage to Syria , and the encamp- ment at Jaffa , previous to the march of the ...
... styles , perhaps improperly , the mission , ' as this term is , by common consent , appropriated to religious enterprises . His residence in Turkey , his voyage to Syria , and the encamp- ment at Jaffa , previous to the march of the ...
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... style of fighting , if successful , is not remarkably close . We must endeavour to compact the conjectures and reason- ings of many a page . The deposition of Chaucer is not considered to require a more precise statement of age , than ...
... style of fighting , if successful , is not remarkably close . We must endeavour to compact the conjectures and reason- ings of many a page . The deposition of Chaucer is not considered to require a more precise statement of age , than ...
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Page 439 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Page 185 - I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent ; but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
Page 417 - Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive.
Page 184 - People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. Almost all girls of quality are educated as if they were to be great ladies, which is often as little to be expected, as an immoderate heat of the sun in the north of Scotland. You should teach yours to confine their desires to probabilities, to be as useful as is possible to themselves, and to think privacy...
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Page 441 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 216 - The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither.
Page 183 - It is a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted in London, as it was in my time, and as it will be I do not doubt) a hundred years hence, with some little variation of dress, and perhaps of government.
Page 295 - Experiments and Observations to determine whether the quantity of Rain and Dew is equal to the quantity of« Water carried off by the Rivers and raised by Evaporation ; with an Enquiry into the Origin of Springs.
Page 185 - ... daughters are beauties, they take great pains to persuade them that they are ugly, or at least that they think so, which the young woman never fails to believe springs from envy, and is perhaps not much in the wrong. I would, if possible, give them a just notion of their figure* and show them how far it is valuable. Every advantage has its price, and may be either over or under valued.