The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles-lettres, Volumen3Constable and Company, 1830 |
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... mind . From the moment the landing of the strangers was announced to him , till that on which he received his death - wound , he did not make one reflected and judicious effort to employ the immense force that was at his disposal . Had ...
... mind . From the moment the landing of the strangers was announced to him , till that on which he received his death - wound , he did not make one reflected and judicious effort to employ the immense force that was at his disposal . Had ...
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... mind , as well as a considerable fervency of poetical feeling . From the first poem , we shall take , as a favourable specimen of the style of the authoress , the following extract , which , although upon a subject that has occupied the ...
... mind , as well as a considerable fervency of poetical feeling . From the first poem , we shall take , as a favourable specimen of the style of the authoress , the following extract , which , although upon a subject that has occupied the ...
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... mind and amenity of manners , which constitute the true En gether , before merging from the Buildings , there is ... minds , and in their sad and prema- ture demise . Each fell the victim of his own over- wrought imagination : - " Like a ...
... mind and amenity of manners , which constitute the true En gether , before merging from the Buildings , there is ... minds , and in their sad and prema- ture demise . Each fell the victim of his own over- wrought imagination : - " Like a ...
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... mind to embody its workings in distinct imagery , and clothe them in words - a process not un- aptly shadowed out under the picture he afterwards drew of the lion at the moment of his creation , - " now half appear'd The tawny lion ...
... mind to embody its workings in distinct imagery , and clothe them in words - a process not un- aptly shadowed out under the picture he afterwards drew of the lion at the moment of his creation , - " now half appear'd The tawny lion ...
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... is ushered in , in Auld Reekie , " Amid the crowd , the hum , the shock of men , is in a high degree striking to a moralizing mind . Nor doctors ' deeds , nor parsons ' tricks , WEEKLY REGISTER OF CRITICISM AND BELLES LETTRES . 13.
... is ushered in , in Auld Reekie , " Amid the crowd , the hum , the shock of men , is in a high degree striking to a moralizing mind . Nor doctors ' deeds , nor parsons ' tricks , WEEKLY REGISTER OF CRITICISM AND BELLES LETTRES . 13.
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Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...