The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 12A. Constable, 1808 |
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Pagina 9
... attempts are made by three several persons to beat into the head of the reader the evidence of De Wilton's innocence , and of Marmion's guilt ; first , by Constance in her dying speech and confession ; secondly , by the abbess in her ...
... attempts are made by three several persons to beat into the head of the reader the evidence of De Wilton's innocence , and of Marmion's guilt ; first , by Constance in her dying speech and confession ; secondly , by the abbess in her ...
Pagina 16
Or Critical Journal. From her convulfed and quivering lip : " Twixt each attempt all was so ftill , You seemed to hear a diftant rill- ' Twas ocean's fwells and falls ; For though this vault of fin and fear Was to the founding furge so ...
Or Critical Journal. From her convulfed and quivering lip : " Twixt each attempt all was so ftill , You seemed to hear a diftant rill- ' Twas ocean's fwells and falls ; For though this vault of fin and fear Was to the founding furge so ...
Pagina 37
... attempted to combine them into a philosophic system , and to trace the wild and pleasing fictions sung by poets , or cele- brated by priests , to profound views of the operations of nature and the mechanism of the universe . Similar ...
... attempted to combine them into a philosophic system , and to trace the wild and pleasing fictions sung by poets , or cele- brated by priests , to profound views of the operations of nature and the mechanism of the universe . Similar ...
Pagina 40
... attempt to conciliate the mythologies of antiquity , we consider a general and intimate ac- quaintance with these compositions as an indispensable requisite . ' They are extremely desultory , treat of a vast variety of subjects , and ...
... attempt to conciliate the mythologies of antiquity , we consider a general and intimate ac- quaintance with these compositions as an indispensable requisite . ' They are extremely desultory , treat of a vast variety of subjects , and ...
Pagina 53
... attempted to lop his redundancies , and correct his infidelities . Of these , though Mr Owen's deserves honourable mention , by far the best was that of Mr Gifford . * It united , in no common degree , fidelity with spirit ; and ...
... attempted to lop his redundancies , and correct his infidelities . Of these , though Mr Owen's deserves honourable mention , by far the best was that of Mr Gifford . * It united , in no common degree , fidelity with spirit ; and ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.