The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureTobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 |
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... present war against the provincials ; they are full of eloquence , force , and dignity . I too have composed a speech on the same subject , which I would de- liver in your senate , had I a seat in it . I will wave for the present , my ...
... present war against the provincials ; they are full of eloquence , force , and dignity . I too have composed a speech on the same subject , which I would de- liver in your senate , had I a seat in it . I will wave for the present , my ...
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... present military station will contribute not a little ; for a soldier's life naturally inspires a certain spirit and confidence , without which the finest elocution will not have a full effect . Not to mention Pericles , Xenophon ...
... present military station will contribute not a little ; for a soldier's life naturally inspires a certain spirit and confidence , without which the finest elocution will not have a full effect . Not to mention Pericles , Xenophon ...
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... present is , that the modulation is very artificial , and the harmony good , but that Pergolesi ( whom the modern Ita- lians are such puppies as to undervalue ) would have made it more pa- thetic and heart - rending , if I may compose ...
... present is , that the modulation is very artificial , and the harmony good , but that Pergolesi ( whom the modern Ita- lians are such puppies as to undervalue ) would have made it more pa- thetic and heart - rending , if I may compose ...
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... present improved state ; that the language , after making all due allowance for numerous errors of the press , is confused , inelegant , and often incorrect . To dilate on imperfections is unpleasing , and consequently the faults of the ...
... present improved state ; that the language , after making all due allowance for numerous errors of the press , is confused , inelegant , and often incorrect . To dilate on imperfections is unpleasing , and consequently the faults of the ...
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... present publication . Cowper has addressed the letters now collected principally to his young friend Mr. Unwin , and to his old and venerable associate Mr. Newton . ' " Many letters of this selection belong to the time in which he was ...
... present publication . Cowper has addressed the letters now collected principally to his young friend Mr. Unwin , and to his old and venerable associate Mr. Newton . ' " Many letters of this selection belong to the time in which he was ...
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Page 161 - 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 50 - 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 57 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Page 55 - 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 265 - 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 57 - 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 346 - 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 160 - ... 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 57 - ... 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 54 - 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.