The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 54 巻A. Constable, 1831 |
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... measures . Not for nothing does he labour to prove that the treatise was as anonymous * as his own essay , and was intended by the Great Unknown , ' who com- posed it , for a mere confidential communication . ' Hence , it seems , it ...
... measures . Not for nothing does he labour to prove that the treatise was as anonymous * as his own essay , and was intended by the Great Unknown , ' who com- posed it , for a mere confidential communication . ' Hence , it seems , it ...
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... measured by modern notions of sublimity . From a miscon- ception of this matter has proceeded Dr Blair's censure of Longinus . Dr Blair had no title to condemn Longinus for the treatment of his subject , upon any other conception of the ...
... measured by modern notions of sublimity . From a miscon- ception of this matter has proceeded Dr Blair's censure of Longinus . Dr Blair had no title to condemn Longinus for the treatment of his subject , upon any other conception of the ...
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... measured praise ; and leads us to conclude that the Laureate has not discovered in Mr Jones any indications of genius of a high order . That a man of defective education , and living in a menial capacity , should write any thing that ...
... measured praise ; and leads us to conclude that the Laureate has not discovered in Mr Jones any indications of genius of a high order . That a man of defective education , and living in a menial capacity , should write any thing that ...
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... measures to the remaining grievances of Ireland . This , we are persuaded , was among the main motives of Mr Moore , not to attend to the recommendations of those who told him that he ought not to enter upon ground , which it is ...
... measures to the remaining grievances of Ireland . This , we are persuaded , was among the main motives of Mr Moore , not to attend to the recommendations of those who told him that he ought not to enter upon ground , which it is ...
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... measures adopted by government , or rather by the faction . before which the government stood in awe , were of such a cha- racter , that the northern leaders of the United Irishmen saw that the time for a general rising was come , and ...
... measures adopted by government , or rather by the faction . before which the government stood in awe , were of such a cha- racter , that the northern leaders of the United Irishmen saw that the time for a general rising was come , and ...
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4 ページ - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
3 ページ - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
20 ページ - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
87 ページ - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
24 ページ - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir !
86 ページ - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
433 ページ - The way, hardly discernible in gloom, runs close by the mouth of the burning pit, which sends forth its flames, its noisome smoke, and its hideous shapes, to terrify the adventurer. Thence he goes on, amidst the snares and pitfalls, with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side. At the end...
15 ページ - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
2 ページ - We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
438 ページ - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did band themselves against me.