Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform], Volume 4Longmans, Green, 1885 |
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Pagina 22
... battle ; but the Austrian troops were advancing to the relief of the fortresses which still held out . In the spring Frederic rejoined his army . He had seen little of war , and had never commanded any great body of men in the field ...
... battle ; but the Austrian troops were advancing to the relief of the fortresses which still held out . In the spring Frederic rejoined his army . He had seen little of war , and had never commanded any great body of men in the field ...
Pagina 23
... battle was fought at Molwitz ; and never did the career of a great commander open in a more inauspicious manner . His army was victorious . Not only , however , did he not establish his title to the character of an able general ; but he ...
... battle was fought at Molwitz ; and never did the career of a great commander open in a more inauspicious manner . His army was victorious . Not only , however , did he not establish his title to the character of an able general ; but he ...
Pagina 26
... battle to the Prus- sians at Chotusitz , and was defeated . The King was still only a learner of the military art . He acknow- ledged , at a later period , that his success on this occa- sion was to be attributed , not at all to his own ...
... battle to the Prus- sians at Chotusitz , and was defeated . The King was still only a learner of the military art . He acknow- ledged , at a later period , that his success on this occa- sion was to be attributed , not at all to his own ...
Pagina 28
... battle array against each other . This year is memorable in the life of Frederic , as the date at which his noviciate in the art of war may be said to have terminated . There have been great captains whose precocious and self - taught ...
... battle array against each other . This year is memorable in the life of Frederic , as the date at which his noviciate in the art of war may be said to have terminated . There have been great captains whose precocious and self - taught ...
Pagina 38
... battles or his laws . It was the just boast of Schiller that , in his country , no Augustus , no Lorenzo , had watched over the in- fancy of poetry . The rich and energetic language of Luther , driven by the Latin from the schools of ...
... battles or his laws . It was the just boast of Schiller that , in his country , no Augustus , no Lorenzo , had watched over the in- fancy of poetry . The rich and energetic language of Luther , driven by the Latin from the schools of ...
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Pagina 149 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Pagina 114 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Pagina 155 - His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper ; but his gaiety is that of a foolish overgrown schoolboy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. He disdains his father for his close attention to business, and love of money ; though he seems himself to have no talents, spirit, or generosity, to make him superior to either. His chief delight appears to be tormenting and ridiculing his sisters ; who, in return, most heartily despise him.
Pagina 306 - We are inclined to think, on the whole, that the worst administration which has governed England since the Revolution was that of George Grenville. His public acts may be classed under two heads — outrages on the liberty of the people, and outrages on the dignity of the Crown.
Pagina 22 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Pagina 242 - B known to us of their intercourse tends to prove, that it was not the intercourse of two accomplices in crime. These are some of the lines in which Tickell...
Pagina 178 - ... pretended to serve. It had become necessary to recruit for the public service from a very different class, from that class of which Addison was the representative. The close of the Minister's letter was remarkable. " I am called," he said, "an enemy of the Church. But I will never do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it.
Pagina 192 - Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or remit a subsidy : he was also well versed in the history of running horses and fighting cocks : but his acquaintance among the poets was very small. He consulted Halifax ; but Halifax affected to decline the office of adviser.
Pagina 227 - Addison was described, even by the bitterest Tory writers, as a gentleman of wit and virtue, in whose friendship many persons of both parties were happy, and whose name ought not to be mixed up with factious squabbles. Of the jests by which the triumph of the Whig party was disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against...
Pagina 196 - Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men.