The Quarterly Review, Volumen51William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1834 |
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... less than a kind of valet ; and still more sorry to say , that the art with which he disfigures this fact gives no fa- vourable impression of his candour . Who would not believe , from his expressions , that he and M. d'Avaray performed ...
... less than a kind of valet ; and still more sorry to say , that the art with which he disfigures this fact gives no fa- vourable impression of his candour . Who would not believe , from his expressions , that he and M. d'Avaray performed ...
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... less so at such a specimen of rigorous despotism , which would have been brutal anywhere , but was absolutely absurd at sea - in a fleet —and when the report to be made was of an unexpected event , the lying - to of the fleet - and the ...
... less so at such a specimen of rigorous despotism , which would have been brutal anywhere , but was absolutely absurd at sea - in a fleet —and when the report to be made was of an unexpected event , the lying - to of the fleet - and the ...
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... less diffuse , less trivial , less partial ; and rather more solicitous to amuse or inform his readers , than to increase , by every artifice of amplifi- cation , the bulk of his volumes , and the consequent amount of his copyright ...
... less diffuse , less trivial , less partial ; and rather more solicitous to amuse or inform his readers , than to increase , by every artifice of amplifi- cation , the bulk of his volumes , and the consequent amount of his copyright ...
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... less active than we think it was , if he would not have considered the friendship even of Cowley purchased too dearly at the expense of having his great Olympic song so handled by our countryman as it was destined to be . That Cowley ...
... less active than we think it was , if he would not have considered the friendship even of Cowley purchased too dearly at the expense of having his great Olympic song so handled by our countryman as it was destined to be . That Cowley ...
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... less ashamed of his original than any other translator of Pindar who has gone before ; indeed , we expected as much from his manly version of the rough places in Dante : yet rhyme and fashion , and the cant of common versifiers , have ...
... less ashamed of his original than any other translator of Pindar who has gone before ; indeed , we expected as much from his manly version of the rough places in Dante : yet rhyme and fashion , and the cant of common versifiers , have ...
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Página 302 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Página 37 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 366 - ... and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 24 - Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Página 306 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Página 38 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 128 - Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way.
Página 303 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Página 303 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Página 427 - Orientale;" but for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations; and bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his " Happy Valley" will not bear a comparison with the "Hall of Eblis.