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In the mean time I amuse myself with the choicest of the Persian poets ; and I have the good fortune to possess many manuscripts , which I have either purchased or borrowed from my friends , on various subjects , including history ...
In the mean time I amuse myself with the choicest of the Persian poets ; and I have the good fortune to possess many manuscripts , which I have either purchased or borrowed from my friends , on various subjects , including history ...
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These were sufficient to enable him to defend a well fortified town against an enemy , who , though superior in the field , possessed nothing similar to those machines which were invented in later times for the destruction of artificial ...
These were sufficient to enable him to defend a well fortified town against an enemy , who , though superior in the field , possessed nothing similar to those machines which were invented in later times for the destruction of artificial ...
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... the certain success of dignity and perspicuity : that the poet should possess promptitude of rhyming , and evince case and fluency , not by negligence and carelessness , but by a well - sustained and regulated balance .
... the certain success of dignity and perspicuity : that the poet should possess promptitude of rhyming , and evince case and fluency , not by negligence and carelessness , but by a well - sustained and regulated balance .
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... but the unrestrained freedom , the playfulness , of comedy , seem to allow of a considerable deviation from the sober shackles in which the tragic muse exhibits herself to most advantage The excellent examples we possess in our own ...
... but the unrestrained freedom , the playfulness , of comedy , seem to allow of a considerable deviation from the sober shackles in which the tragic muse exhibits herself to most advantage The excellent examples we possess in our own ...
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With ardent bosom pant we to possess Those mansions pure , and join their blest employ . ' In the fifth and last book our poet enters upon the sublime , and shows in what it consists ; that it is rather a gift of nature than of art ...
With ardent bosom pant we to possess Those mansions pure , and join their blest employ . ' In the fifth and last book our poet enters upon the sublime , and shows in what it consists ; that it is rather a gift of nature than of art ...
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Page 159 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 48 - All the sounds that nature utters are delightful, — at least in this country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass.
Page 55 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Page 53 - With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.
Page 263 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 55 - But in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change. His passions, appetites, and aims, are just what they ever were. They wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in days of yore ; for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior ; but...
Page 344 - I can assure you that no person ever heard me drop an expression that had a tendency to resignation. The same principles that led me to embark in the opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain, operate with additional force at this day ; nor is it my desire to withdraw my services while they are considered of importance in the present contest: but to report a design of this kind, is among the acts which those who are endeavoring to effect a change, are practising to bring it to pass.
Page 158 - ... springing from the clefts of its hoo'd, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces...
Page 55 - ... upon the people of another nation, almost upon creatures of another species. Their vast rambling mansions, spacious halls, and painted casements, the gothic porch, smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens, and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues...
Page 52 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
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| Title | The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature |
| Editor | Tobias Smollett |
| Publisher | W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2007 |
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