The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 23A. Constable, 1814 |
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... readers , we are per- suaded , will rather smile at our simplicity , than fret at our pre- sumption , when we add , that we have sometimes permitted our selves to fancy that , if any copy of these our lucubrations should go down to ...
... readers , we are per- suaded , will rather smile at our simplicity , than fret at our pre- sumption , when we add , that we have sometimes permitted our selves to fancy that , if any copy of these our lucubrations should go down to ...
Pagina 8
... readers , and none of our censors , can be more per- suaded than we are of the extreme insignificance of such a dis- cussion - and not many of them can feel more completely indif- ferent about the aspersions with which we have been ...
... readers , and none of our censors , can be more per- suaded than we are of the extreme insignificance of such a dis- cussion - and not many of them can feel more completely indif- ferent about the aspersions with which we have been ...
Pagina 8
... reading the addresses of the Allied Sovereigns to the people of Europe and of France ; and , above all , in tracing every step of their demean- our after they got possession of the metropolis , we seem to be transported froin the vulgar ...
... reading the addresses of the Allied Sovereigns to the people of Europe and of France ; and , above all , in tracing every step of their demean- our after they got possession of the metropolis , we seem to be transported froin the vulgar ...
Pagina 36
... readers agree with us in our estimate of the importance of these circumstances , we can scarcely doubt that they will concur in- our general conclusion . In the first place then , it is obvious , that the direct patron- age and indirect ...
... readers agree with us in our estimate of the importance of these circumstances , we can scarcely doubt that they will concur in- our general conclusion . In the first place then , it is obvious , that the direct patron- age and indirect ...
Pagina 38
... . Of the for- mer , many of our readers may think we said enough in our sst . Our real in that cause , we know , has been made mat- ter of wonder , and even of derision , among 38 April State and Prospects of Europe .
... . Of the for- mer , many of our readers may think we said enough in our sst . Our real in that cause , we know , has been made mat- ter of wonder , and even of derision , among 38 April State and Prospects of Europe .
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Pagina 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 203 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Pagina 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 425 - Yet a few years, we think, and all that now bless, or all that now convulse humanity, will also have perished. The mightiest pageantry of life will pass, the loudest notes of triumph or of conquest will be silent in the grave; — the wicked, wherever active, " will cease from troubling," and the weary, wherever suffering,
Pagina 204 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Pagina 211 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Pagina 211 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Pagina 257 - ASIA, being the first portion of a General Collection of Voyages and Travels; forming a complete History of the origin and progress of discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
Pagina 500 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Pagina 268 - In a short time a new taste and new perceptions began to dawn upon me, and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art, and that this great painter was well entitled to the high rank which he holds in the estimation of the world.