The Quarterly Review, Հատոր 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... England than in any country of the continent . Her Magna Charta did precede the capitulations wrung by the states - general from the French King John during his captivity in England , by 141 years- but how much more did it precede them ...
... England than in any country of the continent . Her Magna Charta did precede the capitulations wrung by the states - general from the French King John during his captivity in England , by 141 years- but how much more did it precede them ...
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... England alone → or England and her descendants - can be said to possess them at this hour . They who say that the general reasonings of the French are superior , forget that the period of abstraction is gone by with us ; that , when we ...
... England alone → or England and her descendants - can be said to possess them at this hour . They who say that the general reasonings of the French are superior , forget that the period of abstraction is gone by with us ; that , when we ...
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... England , as , for instance , one reproach which we should hardly expect to find made to us by that nation under any of its forms of government : to wit , that all the wealth of this country is in the hands of a few , while the people ...
... England , as , for instance , one reproach which we should hardly expect to find made to us by that nation under any of its forms of government : to wit , that all the wealth of this country is in the hands of a few , while the people ...
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... England , M. de Staël allows , since he admits that there le lien conjugal est dans toute sa beauté . One consequence indeed of family connexion is more powerful in France than in England ; but we deny that it is founded on affection ...
... England , M. de Staël allows , since he admits that there le lien conjugal est dans toute sa beauté . One consequence indeed of family connexion is more powerful in France than in England ; but we deny that it is founded on affection ...
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... England . Where levity is great , and reflection rare , the affections may be prompt and flashy , but they are not either deep or lasting . Another opinion which we were sorry , for his sake , to find in M. de Staël's work is , that England ...
... England . Where levity is great , and reflection rare , the affections may be prompt and flashy , but they are not either deep or lasting . Another opinion which we were sorry , for his sake , to find in M. de Staël's work is , that England ...
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Էջ 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Էջ 90 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Էջ 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Էջ 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Էջ 249 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Էջ 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Էջ 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Էջ 241 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.