The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles-lettres, Հատոր 3Constable and Company, 1830 |
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... character , and thus doing more for his memory than could have been accomplished by the gross- est flattery . The biographer sums up his narrative with the following passage , in the sentiments of which we heartily agree : " Having ...
... character , and thus doing more for his memory than could have been accomplished by the gross- est flattery . The biographer sums up his narrative with the following passage , in the sentiments of which we heartily agree : " Having ...
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... character of the parent , and to the moral training and happiness of the child . It is rightly ordered in respect to the moral character of the parent , for only the man who acts from the free impulses of his own heart , and under the ...
... character of the parent , and to the moral training and happiness of the child . It is rightly ordered in respect to the moral character of the parent , for only the man who acts from the free impulses of his own heart , and under the ...
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... character satisfac- torily and fully solved ; and now , for the first time , have we been introduced into the private society and secret thoughts of that mighty spirit , whose brief existence gave a colour to the literature of an age ...
... character satisfac- torily and fully solved ; and now , for the first time , have we been introduced into the private society and secret thoughts of that mighty spirit , whose brief existence gave a colour to the literature of an age ...
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... character that entertains people with fables as if they were true stories . There is nothing like sticking by the genuine truth . " Here Mr Smith tipped me the wink , hinting to me to note whether or not the Doctor told the truth ...
... character that entertains people with fables as if they were true stories . There is nothing like sticking by the genuine truth . " Here Mr Smith tipped me the wink , hinting to me to note whether or not the Doctor told the truth ...
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... character , before he can be grotesque or humorous himself . He is his own author . Not that he writes comedies and farces ; but that he sees them written in human nature , and reads and studies them in everyday society . Mathews is de ...
... character , before he can be grotesque or humorous himself . He is his own author . Not that he writes comedies and farces ; but that he sees them written in human nature , and reads and studies them in everyday society . Mathews is de ...
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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...