The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles-lettres, Հատոր 3Constable and Company, 1830 |
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... character of its out- tection which Cortes afforded them against the envoys ward solemnities , from that of the forest warriors - ham- sent by Montezuma to receive the wonted tribute , as well pred , by its gross and cruel superstitions ...
... character of its out- tection which Cortes afforded them against the envoys ward solemnities , from that of the forest warriors - ham- sent by Montezuma to receive the wonted tribute , as well pred , by its gross and cruel superstitions ...
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... character , is their unimpassioned tone . The only things that seem to excite him are beauty , harmony , and moral enthusiasm . We can trace nowhere , that thrilling of the nerves and rush of blood which makes , in most men , the time ...
... character , is their unimpassioned tone . The only things that seem to excite him are beauty , harmony , and moral enthusiasm . We can trace nowhere , that thrilling of the nerves and rush of blood which makes , in most men , the time ...
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... character . It was about this time that he published his " Sagen der Vorzeit , " ( Tales of the Olden Time , ) and ... characters in it are well drawn , though on the whole it is inferior to the cele- brated drama of the same name by ...
... character . It was about this time that he published his " Sagen der Vorzeit , " ( Tales of the Olden Time , ) and ... characters in it are well drawn , though on the whole it is inferior to the cele- brated drama of the same name by ...
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... character ; and there is no part of the whole book before us with which we more heartily agree , than with the sentiments contained in the following para- graphs : THE IMPORTANCE OF RESERVE . " This sentiment of order in the mind , this ...
... character ; and there is no part of the whole book before us with which we more heartily agree , than with the sentiments contained in the following para- graphs : THE IMPORTANCE OF RESERVE . " This sentiment of order in the mind , this ...
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... character . Yet the book which presents us a character like this , in all the confidence of domestic intercourse , has afforded the great majority of our con- temporaries food for nothing but a few fool - born jests ! THE exclusively ...
... character . Yet the book which presents us a character like this , in all the confidence of domestic intercourse , has afforded the great majority of our con- temporaries food for nothing but a few fool - born jests ! THE exclusively ...
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Էջ 228 - Some say that they are beeches, others elms — These were the bower; and here a mansion stood, The finest palace of a hundred realms!
Էջ 106 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Էջ 113 - The fire was burning brightly ; the steaks were put on to broil, and Barry, having spread a clean cloth on the table, put a pair of tongs in the hands of Burke, saying, " Be useful, my dear friend, and look to the steaks till I fetch the porter.
Էջ 48 - DRUNKENNESS. JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth well : He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more — so was carried at last ; For, the liquor he drank, being too much for one, He could not carry off, — so he's now carri-on.
Էջ 143 - The grass is soft, its velvet touch is grateful to the hand ; And, like the kiss of maiden love, the breeze is sweet and bland ; The daisy and the buttercup are nodding courteously; It stirs their blood with kindest love, to bless and welcome thee ; And mark how with thine own thin locks — they now are silvery gray — That blissful breeze is wantoning, and whispering, "Be gay!
Էջ 189 - ... prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage.
Էջ 257 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Էջ 47 - Lord Byron's reading did not seem to me to have been very extensive either in poetry or history. Having the advantage of him in that respect, and possessing a good competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty.
Էջ 44 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel amongst us all, masters and scholars ; and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think...
Էջ 213 - I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities : but I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown...