The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... nature of their art , went elaborately and perversely wrong . So little were critics aware of the specific literary merit appropriate to writings of this de- scription , that Bishop Sprat , the historian of the Royal Society , and a ...
... nature of their art , went elaborately and perversely wrong . So little were critics aware of the specific literary merit appropriate to writings of this de- scription , that Bishop Sprat , the historian of the Royal Society , and a ...
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... nature , and show us life in its most attractive aspects the affectionate intercourse of devoted friends . While we read , the world without insensibly disappears . We see only in its stead some favoured spots , peopled by a happy race ...
... nature , and show us life in its most attractive aspects the affectionate intercourse of devoted friends . While we read , the world without insensibly disappears . We see only in its stead some favoured spots , peopled by a happy race ...
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... nature is one of the great attractions and verities of their works . Every thing about them is in this sense so true . Mrs Unwin , Lady Hesketh , and Lady Austin were Cowper's muses . His verses were written to them , and for them ...
... nature is one of the great attractions and verities of their works . Every thing about them is in this sense so true . Mrs Unwin , Lady Hesketh , and Lady Austin were Cowper's muses . His verses were written to them , and for them ...
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... Nature surely meant to make of that fortunate relationship . True Londoners , they never had the courage all this time to transplant their home further from London than the suburbs ; -happy in a society , which Lamb's popularity ...
... Nature surely meant to make of that fortunate relationship . True Londoners , they never had the courage all this time to transplant their home further from London than the suburbs ; -happy in a society , which Lamb's popularity ...
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... nature on such equal terms , that whatever the first began the latter finish- ed . His heart had no sooner set him to work , than a form like that of a capricious fairy was seen hovering near . His fancy took the story up , -played with ...
... nature on such equal terms , that whatever the first began the latter finish- ed . His heart had no sooner set him to work , than a form like that of a capricious fairy was seen hovering near . His fancy took the story up , -played with ...
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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.