The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Volume 1Hauer., 1842 |
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... become " more mocked than feared . The terrors of the office were << therefore in some measure maintained by the severity " exercised upon the trumpery novels and still - born poetry that issued from the press ; whose unknown and ...
... become " more mocked than feared . The terrors of the office were << therefore in some measure maintained by the severity " exercised upon the trumpery novels and still - born poetry that issued from the press ; whose unknown and ...
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... become a matter of com- paratively little importance . He determined that his daughter should have the full benefit to be derived from them ; and for a Chinese , it must be owned that his principles exhibited much liberality of feeling ...
... become a matter of com- paratively little importance . He determined that his daughter should have the full benefit to be derived from them ; and for a Chinese , it must be owned that his principles exhibited much liberality of feeling ...
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... become a cause of quarrel , neither should drink it . Their anger blew over , and several times since they had taken tea together in perfect amity . One evening they were seated at that important occupation , and Ho - Fi had just ...
... become a cause of quarrel , neither should drink it . Their anger blew over , and several times since they had taken tea together in perfect amity . One evening they were seated at that important occupation , and Ho - Fi had just ...
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... is a more manly , simple , and majestic wear , than the lazy dressing - gown ; it more becomes a man of Macbeth's mountainous habits ; it - leaves his legs quite free to run whithersoever he pleases MEN AND COATS . 39.
... is a more manly , simple , and majestic wear , than the lazy dressing - gown ; it more becomes a man of Macbeth's mountainous habits ; it - leaves his legs quite free to run whithersoever he pleases MEN AND COATS . 39.
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... becomes enervated , lazy , incapable of great actions . A man in a Jacket is a man . All great men wore jackets . Walter Scott wore a jacket , as every - body knows ; Byron wore a jacket ( not that I count a man who turns down his ...
... becomes enervated , lazy , incapable of great actions . A man in a Jacket is a man . All great men wore jackets . Walter Scott wore a jacket , as every - body knows ; Byron wore a jacket ( not that I count a man who turns down his ...
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Page 201 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 6 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 202 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 202 - Above them all the arch-angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge...
Page 205 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 202 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Page 433 - Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him...
Page 200 - Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle, And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle.
Page 536 - Only Dick Christian,';}; answers Lord Forester, ' and it is nothing new to him.' ' But he'll be drowned,' exclaims Lord Kinnaird. ' I shouldn't wonder,
Page 6 - ... and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and ablest judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island.