The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Volume 1Hauer., 1842 |
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... thought , magnificence of illustration , and condensed vigour of style , may often be pla- ced in competition with the noblest efforts of antiquity . 11 " 19 I was acquainted » says Gibbon , only with two ways of criticising a beautiful ...
... thought , magnificence of illustration , and condensed vigour of style , may often be pla- ced in competition with the noblest efforts of antiquity . 11 " 19 I was acquainted » says Gibbon , only with two ways of criticising a beautiful ...
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... by petulance and partiality . To this work Samuel Johnson contributed several articles , exhibiting the same universal erudition , reach and grasp of VOL . I. 2 thought , and ornate sonorous style which render his name PERIODICALS . 9.
... by petulance and partiality . To this work Samuel Johnson contributed several articles , exhibiting the same universal erudition , reach and grasp of VOL . I. 2 thought , and ornate sonorous style which render his name PERIODICALS . 9.
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thought , and ornate sonorous style which render his name so justly celebrated . Of its other supporters one of the principal was Dr Joseph Robertson ; as may be judged from the fact of his having supplied upwards of 2,600 different ...
thought , and ornate sonorous style which render his name so justly celebrated . Of its other supporters one of the principal was Dr Joseph Robertson ; as may be judged from the fact of his having supplied upwards of 2,600 different ...
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... thought that perhaps an essay upon new clothes and their influence might be attended with some profit to the public and the writer . One thing is certain . A man does not have a new suit of clothes every day ; and another general ...
... thought that perhaps an essay upon new clothes and their influence might be attended with some profit to the public and the writer . One thing is certain . A man does not have a new suit of clothes every day ; and another general ...
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... thought of . But it was all chance that Miss Hopkins turned out the excellent creature she was . Smith did not know any more than that she was gay , plump , good - looking , ard had five thousand pounds . Hit or miss he took her , and ...
... thought of . But it was all chance that Miss Hopkins turned out the excellent creature she was . Smith did not know any more than that she was gay , plump , good - looking , ard had five thousand pounds . Hit or miss he took her , and ...
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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.