The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen12A. Constable, 1808 |
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... Law v ; And , broad between them rolled , The gallant Frith the eye might note , Whofe iflands on its bofom float , Like emeralds chafed in gold . Fitz - Euftace ' heart felt closely pent ; As if to give his rapture vent , The fpur he ...
... Law v ; And , broad between them rolled , The gallant Frith the eye might note , Whofe iflands on its bofom float , Like emeralds chafed in gold . Fitz - Euftace ' heart felt closely pent ; As if to give his rapture vent , The fpur he ...
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... law are ufually cited as Menu's and Yajynyawalkya's : but , in the codes themfelves , thofe are dialogifts , not authors : and the beft commentators exprefsly declare , that these inftitutes were written by other perfons . The Surya ...
... law are ufually cited as Menu's and Yajynyawalkya's : but , in the codes themfelves , thofe are dialogifts , not authors : and the beft commentators exprefsly declare , that these inftitutes were written by other perfons . The Surya ...
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... Law in his voice , and Fortune in his hand and how vapid are those traits of indirect satire , where Juvenal deals his by - blows to less prominent and contem- porary characters , which to us are literally voces et præterea nihil ...
... Law in his voice , and Fortune in his hand and how vapid are those traits of indirect satire , where Juvenal deals his by - blows to less prominent and contem- porary characters , which to us are literally voces et præterea nihil ...
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... laws of nature . Human characters , how- ever forcibly or humorously drawn , I beg permission to class with the works of imagination . Caliban and Prospero , accord- ing to this distinction , are the boast of Shakespeare's invention ...
... laws of nature . Human characters , how- ever forcibly or humorously drawn , I beg permission to class with the works of imagination . Caliban and Prospero , accord- ing to this distinction , are the boast of Shakespeare's invention ...
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... law , would only set aside the credibility of his evidence . In criticism it is a two - edged argument ; it invalidates the faith of his praise as well as of his censure . I object to the sincerity of Dr Johnson's censure , says the ...
... law , would only set aside the credibility of his evidence . In criticism it is a two - edged argument ; it invalidates the faith of his praise as well as of his censure . I object to the sincerity of Dr Johnson's censure , says the ...
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Página 450 - 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.
Página 443 - 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.
Página 444 - 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...
Página 18 - 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?
Página 136 - 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...
Página 355 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Página 11 - 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.
Página 131 - ... 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
Página 134 - 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...
Página 18 - 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.