The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... lights and shadows - so much of the dramatic effect depends on the voice and look and manner and occasion , all of which are , of course , lost on paper - that we do not wonder at the paucity of our specimens of the talk of even the ...
... lights and shadows - so much of the dramatic effect depends on the voice and look and manner and occasion , all of which are , of course , lost on paper - that we do not wonder at the paucity of our specimens of the talk of even the ...
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... light . But the truth is , that though we may suppose our ancestors to have conversed as much and as well as we do , they certainly corresponded less and worse : idle letters are modern luxuries ; the last and kindliest fruits of our ...
... light . But the truth is , that though we may suppose our ancestors to have conversed as much and as well as we do , they certainly corresponded less and worse : idle letters are modern luxuries ; the last and kindliest fruits of our ...
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... light streams upon the surrounding figures that are grouped around them . Journals approach nearer to the point of view we are wanting ; but it is accidentally , and by fits . The Journals of Evelyn and Pepys were kept as memoranda of ...
... light streams upon the surrounding figures that are grouped around them . Journals approach nearer to the point of view we are wanting ; but it is accidentally , and by fits . The Journals of Evelyn and Pepys were kept as memoranda of ...
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... light and shade as suits his purpose ; and the contrasts which he thus brings out at every touch , are the triumphs of his art . Lamb might safely be trusted with this power . Those whom he once had taken to were irremovably lodged for ...
... light and shade as suits his purpose ; and the contrasts which he thus brings out at every touch , are the triumphs of his art . Lamb might safely be trusted with this power . Those whom he once had taken to were irremovably lodged for ...
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... light , and no fire - light . I do not write , tell your kind inquisitive Eliza , and can hardly I assure you no work is worse than overwork . mind preys on itself , the most unwholesome food . I bragged formerly that I could not have ...
... light , and no fire - light . I do not write , tell your kind inquisitive Eliza , and can hardly I assure you no work is worse than overwork . mind preys on itself , the most unwholesome food . I bragged formerly that I could not have ...
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Seite 169 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 185 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and...
Seite 21 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Seite 163 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Seite 172 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Seite 21 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. — All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
Seite 189 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Seite 172 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Seite 16 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on on the stage, because a word lost would have been a chasm which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then ; and I appeal to you whether as a woman I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house.
Seite 184 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.