The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 12 巻A. Constable, 1808 |
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... character and incident ; and if it has less sweet- ness and pathos in the softer passages , it has certainly more ve- hemence and force of colouring in the loftier and busier repre- sentations of action and emotion . The place of the ...
... character and incident ; and if it has less sweet- ness and pathos in the softer passages , it has certainly more ve- hemence and force of colouring in the loftier and busier repre- sentations of action and emotion . The place of the ...
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... character , and are woven together into a petty intricacy and entanglement which puzzles the reader instead of interesting him , and fatigues instead of ex- citing his curiosity . The unaccountable conduct of Constance , in first ...
... character , and are woven together into a petty intricacy and entanglement which puzzles the reader instead of interesting him , and fatigues instead of ex- citing his curiosity . The unaccountable conduct of Constance , in first ...
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... character of the personages to whom they relate ; and , instead of forming the instruments of knightly vengeance and redress , remind us of the machinery of a bad German novel , or of the disclosures which might be expect- ed on the ...
... character of the personages to whom they relate ; and , instead of forming the instruments of knightly vengeance and redress , remind us of the machinery of a bad German novel , or of the disclosures which might be expect- ed on the ...
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... character and habits of acting . By the way , we have great doubts whether a convicted traitor , like De Wilton , whose guilt was established by written evidence under his own hand , was ever allowed to enter the lists , as a knight ...
... character and habits of acting . By the way , we have great doubts whether a convicted traitor , like De Wilton , whose guilt was established by written evidence under his own hand , was ever allowed to enter the lists , as a knight ...
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... character and manners from the English , or to give expression to the general feeling of rivalry and mutual jealousy ... characters , and in the description of great and strik- ing events . After having detained the reader so long with ...
... character and manners from the English , or to give expression to the general feeling of rivalry and mutual jealousy ... characters , and in the description of great and strik- ing events . After having detained the reader so long with ...
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450 ページ - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,— instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
443 ページ - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
444 ページ - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
18 ページ - Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word.) " O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
136 ページ - Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye...
355 ページ - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
11 ページ - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
131 ページ - ... subject: but, instead of new images of tenderness, or delicate representation of intelligible feelings, he has contrived to tell us nothing whatever of the unfortunate fair one, but that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries
134 ページ - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely...
18 ページ - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.