Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853 |
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... interest , either makes it impossible for the objects of his care to borrow at all , or places them at the mercy of the worst class of usurers . A lawgiver who , from tenderness for labouring men , fixes the hours of their work and the ...
... interest , either makes it impossible for the objects of his care to borrow at all , or places them at the mercy of the worst class of usurers . A lawgiver who , from tenderness for labouring men , fixes the hours of their work and the ...
Pagina 21
... interest and on landed security ; and this judicious investment was the beginning of the most splendid private fortune in Europe . Wycherley was not so lucky . The partiality with which the great lady regarded him was indeed the C 3 OF ...
... interest and on landed security ; and this judicious investment was the beginning of the most splendid private fortune in Europe . Wycherley was not so lucky . The partiality with which the great lady regarded him was indeed the C 3 OF ...
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... interests or whims of favourites were concerned , the government of Charles was deaf to all remonstrances . Wycherley did not choose to be out of the fashion . He embarked , was present at a battle , and celebrated it , on his return ...
... interests or whims of favourites were concerned , the government of Charles was deaf to all remonstrances . Wycherley did not choose to be out of the fashion . He embarked , was present at a battle , and celebrated it , on his return ...
Pagina 26
... interests of his church , raises in us a surmise which Mr. Leigh Hunt will , we fear , pronounce very uncharitable . We cannot help suspecting that it was at this time that Wycherley returned to the communion of the Church of Rome ...
... interests of his church , raises in us a surmise which Mr. Leigh Hunt will , we fear , pronounce very uncharitable . We cannot help suspecting that it was at this time that Wycherley returned to the communion of the Church of Rome ...
Pagina 36
... interest and of probability . The characters are either not distinguishable , or are distinguished only by peculiarities of the most glaring kind . But the dialogue is resplendent with wit and eloquence , which indeed are so abundant ...
... interest and of probability . The characters are either not distinguishable , or are distinguished only by peculiarities of the most glaring kind . But the dialogue is resplendent with wit and eloquence , which indeed are so abundant ...
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Pagina 178 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Pagina 179 - ... a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.
Pagina 35 - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Pagina 36 - I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not th...
Pagina 341 - 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 166 - ... with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which...
Pagina 182 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Pagina 306 - 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 materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of better books.
Pagina 287 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
Pagina 181 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and hostile chancellor, and for a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their .taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out, smelling bottles were handed round, hysterical...