The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8A. Constable, 1806 |
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Page 36
... interesting to men of tafte and literature . But when a traveller excites attention in none of thefe ways , it will avail him little , that he has croffed the burning deferts of Syria and Arabia dur- ing the dog - days ; that he points ...
... interesting to men of tafte and literature . But when a traveller excites attention in none of thefe ways , it will avail him little , that he has croffed the burning deferts of Syria and Arabia dur- ing the dog - days ; that he points ...
Page 49
... interesting part of the volume in which it is contained . It cannot be read without deeply impreffing the mind with abhorrence for the cruelty , cunning , and rapacity of the modern mafters of Afia Minor . Virtue is not acknowledged if ...
... interesting part of the volume in which it is contained . It cannot be read without deeply impreffing the mind with abhorrence for the cruelty , cunning , and rapacity of the modern mafters of Afia Minor . Virtue is not acknowledged if ...
Page 54
... interesting statements , correcting none of the mif- takes and wilful errors into which he has been convicted of fal- ling , and obfcuring the whole by an arrangement and style , in com- parison of which , the clumfy method and tawdry ...
... interesting statements , correcting none of the mif- takes and wilful errors into which he has been convicted of fal- ling , and obfcuring the whole by an arrangement and style , in com- parison of which , the clumfy method and tawdry ...
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... interesting , either for novelty or merit , and have paffed over the reft , without attempting to give any account of their contents . In purfuance of this plan , we are now to direct the attention of our readers towards fome of the ...
... interesting , either for novelty or merit , and have paffed over the reft , without attempting to give any account of their contents . In purfuance of this plan , we are now to direct the attention of our readers towards fome of the ...
Page 83
... interesting memoir : but it is vague and fuperficial , and has little reference to the title till towards the conclufion . We are then informed that the balance of trade , in mineral commodities , was , in 1787 , against France ...
... interesting memoir : but it is vague and fuperficial , and has little reference to the title till towards the conclufion . We are then informed that the balance of trade , in mineral commodities , was , in 1787 , against France ...
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Page 179 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 183 - Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins, and all his joints relax'd...
Page 184 - Castalian spring might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and...
Page 190 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 188 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Page 282 - And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.
Page 125 - Who •will say that Johnson himself would have been such a champion in literature, such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory •with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it.
Page 112 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to the prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.
Page 172 - We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed; Then wish for heirs: but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives are known; Th' audacious strumpet, and ungracious son.
Page 338 - I shall, from every private, as well as public motive, most heartily lament, that this is not the moment wherein those great objects of my ambition are to be attained ; and that I am to be longer deprived of an opportunity to assure you, personally, of the regard with which I am your sincere and faithful humble servant, HOWE.