The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 27Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1799 |
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Pagina 15
... seems to favor the opinion of her innocence . George , who , before he afcended the British throne , had made a fruitlefs propofal of reconciliation , was induced to renew the offer . A fact which rests upon the strongest evidence is ...
... seems to favor the opinion of her innocence . George , who , before he afcended the British throne , had made a fruitlefs propofal of reconciliation , was induced to renew the offer . A fact which rests upon the strongest evidence is ...
Pagina 50
... seems to have indulged his fancy in attempting to give exact and difcrimi- nating delineations of idols that mock defcription . In Devonshire , we have an ample field for fuch investigation . But the misfortune is , that nature has ...
... seems to have indulged his fancy in attempting to give exact and difcrimi- nating delineations of idols that mock defcription . In Devonshire , we have an ample field for fuch investigation . But the misfortune is , that nature has ...
Pagina 51
Tobias Smollett. breathe a browner horror . In the parish of Drewsteignton , which seems to have been fingled out by the Druids as the peculiar feat of their religion , there is , at the end of a down , at no great di- stance from the ...
Tobias Smollett. breathe a browner horror . In the parish of Drewsteignton , which seems to have been fingled out by the Druids as the peculiar feat of their religion , there is , at the end of a down , at no great di- stance from the ...
Pagina 74
... seem probable that he was my deliverer , fince he is not accustomed to come abroad by day - light , My half - dreaming fituation when I was first rouled , rendered me incapable of obferving the creature with any degree of accuracy , and ...
... seem probable that he was my deliverer , fince he is not accustomed to come abroad by day - light , My half - dreaming fituation when I was first rouled , rendered me incapable of obferving the creature with any degree of accuracy , and ...
Pagina 77
... seem good to himfelf ; confequently that no reasonable man could confider his removing one of his own ftoves from one of his own rooms , into another , as the smallest offence . This was only adding fuel to the flame , and encreased the ...
... seem good to himfelf ; confequently that no reasonable man could confider his removing one of his own ftoves from one of his own rooms , into another , as the smallest offence . This was only adding fuel to the flame , and encreased the ...
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Pagina 158 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pagina 359 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Pagina 162 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Pagina 43 - ... while sucking. Elephants never lie down to give their young ones suck; and it often happens, when the dam is tall, that she is obliged for some time to bend her body towards her young, to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth: consequently, if ever the trunk...
Pagina 161 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man * a world without a sun.
Pagina 160 - Tyrants! in vain ye trace the wizard ring; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No!
Pagina 159 - He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath, and thunders from on high! Heaven's fiery horse, beneath his warrior form, Paws the light clouds, and gallops on the storm! Wide waves his flickering sword, his bright arms glow Like summer suns, and light the world below! Earth, and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed Are shook, and Nature rocks beneath his tread.
Pagina 158 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there.
Pagina 94 - So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog, or a wild beast into the streets.
Pagina 392 - They watched all our motions, and accompa- , nied us in whatever we were about to do. If the fea threw up an animal of any kind they devoured it, ere a man of us could come up, to our great...