The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles-lettres, Հատոր 3Constable and Company, 1830 |
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... excellent stanzas . In the prose department , we are , on the whole , most pleased with those chapters which describe an Indian's return home after spending thirty of the best years of his life so far from his native country . They are ...
... excellent stanzas . In the prose department , we are , on the whole , most pleased with those chapters which describe an Indian's return home after spending thirty of the best years of his life so far from his native country . They are ...
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... excellent feeling of the proper mode of communica- ting instruction to youth , it is no less happily executed . The articles introduced are all such as boys will devour greedily , and we have no doubt that they will amply jus- tify the ...
... excellent feeling of the proper mode of communica- ting instruction to youth , it is no less happily executed . The articles introduced are all such as boys will devour greedily , and we have no doubt that they will amply jus- tify the ...
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... excellent play too , though we cannot exactly take upor to say whether it was " Hamlet " or " The Jealous Wi The play is over , and the people have stood up in the and put on their hats , and chatted , and looked And now the fiddlers ...
... excellent play too , though we cannot exactly take upor to say whether it was " Hamlet " or " The Jealous Wi The play is over , and the people have stood up in the and put on their hats , and chatted , and looked And now the fiddlers ...
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... excellent manuals of General Anatomy which , from the times of Haller to the present day , have been added to the Continental medical literature . Without prejudice , and without a bias towards any particular doctrine or school , I ...
... excellent manuals of General Anatomy which , from the times of Haller to the present day , have been added to the Continental medical literature . Without prejudice , and without a bias towards any particular doctrine or school , I ...
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... excellent practical introduction to the French language . The prefatorial essay contains a brief exposi- tion of the alphabet , and the various marks and accents which puzzle the young beginner of French ; a succinct and satisfactory ...
... excellent practical introduction to the French language . The prefatorial essay contains a brief exposi- tion of the alphabet , and the various marks and accents which puzzle the young beginner of French ; a succinct and satisfactory ...
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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...