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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... former defcription is M. Faujas St. Fond . He visited Great - Britain in the year 1784 ; but his travels were not prepared for the prefs before 1792 ; and , after that time , the diflurbances in France long prevented their appear- ance ...
... former defcription is M. Faujas St. Fond . He visited Great - Britain in the year 1784 ; but his travels were not prepared for the prefs before 1792 ; and , after that time , the diflurbances in France long prevented their appear- ance ...
Pagina 3
... former . Such inftances as this ought doubtless to give us very important leffons . ' Vol . i . p . 145 . In Northumberland , our author found carious and porcus porphyries , which refembled lavas , but which are of B 2 Saint - Fond's ...
... former . Such inftances as this ought doubtless to give us very important leffons . ' Vol . i . p . 145 . In Northumberland , our author found carious and porcus porphyries , which refembled lavas , but which are of B 2 Saint - Fond's ...
Pagina 14
... former travellers . Derby , and its manufacture of ornamental vafes from the fluor fpar , are next examined . Birmingham was viewed by St. Fond with an eager and comprehenfive eye ; and he speaks of its manufactures with the ...
... former travellers . Derby , and its manufacture of ornamental vafes from the fluor fpar , are next examined . Birmingham was viewed by St. Fond with an eager and comprehenfive eye ; and he speaks of its manufactures with the ...
Pagina 17
... former enjoys all the confidence of Joseph : the latter poffeffes all the efteem of Frederic . If the Auftrian officer looks up to the first ; the Austrian foldier has his eye fixed on the fecond , crowds to his ftandard , and efteems ...
... former enjoys all the confidence of Joseph : the latter poffeffes all the efteem of Frederic . If the Auftrian officer looks up to the first ; the Austrian foldier has his eye fixed on the fecond , crowds to his ftandard , and efteems ...
Pagina 19
... former courage and military fkill . But our author defends him with plaufibility and propriety . In the memoirs of the Saxon court , the elector , Frederic Auguftus , is reprefented as a prince of a cold referved difpo- fition , but of ...
... former courage and military fkill . But our author defends him with plaufibility and propriety . In the memoirs of the Saxon court , the elector , Frederic Auguftus , is reprefented as a prince of a cold referved difpo- fition , but of ...
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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.
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