The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 12 巻A. Constable, 1808 |
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... original success could be imputed , in any degree , to the novelty of his plan of composi- tion . The public is always indulgent to untried talents ; and is even apt to exaggerate a little the value of what it receives with- out any ...
... original success could be imputed , in any degree , to the novelty of his plan of composi- tion . The public is always indulgent to untried talents ; and is even apt to exaggerate a little the value of what it receives with- out any ...
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... original ima- gination . In the third place , we object to the extreme and monstrous improbability of almost all the incidents which go to the compo- sition of this fable . We know very well , that poetry does not de- scribe what is ...
... original ima- gination . In the third place , we object to the extreme and monstrous improbability of almost all the incidents which go to the compo- sition of this fable . We know very well , that poetry does not de- scribe what is ...
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... original to give beauty and ef- fect to what we have actually cited . From the moment the au- thor gets in sight of Flodden Field , indeed , to the end of the poem , there is no tame writing , and no intervention of ordinary passages ...
... original to give beauty and ef- fect to what we have actually cited . From the moment the au- thor gets in sight of Flodden Field , indeed , to the end of the poem , there is no tame writing , and no intervention of ordinary passages ...
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... original unity of the system was destroyed before the age of those writers from whom alone we can derive our ideas concerning it . The theogony of Hesiod , the most antient , seems also the most complete epitome of the religious ...
... original unity of the system was destroyed before the age of those writers from whom alone we can derive our ideas concerning it . The theogony of Hesiod , the most antient , seems also the most complete epitome of the religious ...
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... original seats of the Pelasgi , to whom Greece probably ow- ed all the inventions , for which she is not indebted to Egyptian or Phoenician colonies . The investigations we have here recommended seem , therefore , capable of affording ...
... original seats of the Pelasgi , to whom Greece probably ow- ed all the inventions , for which she is not indebted to Egyptian or Phoenician colonies . The investigations we have here recommended seem , therefore , capable of affording ...
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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.