The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Τόμος 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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Σελίδα 8
... seems to us as monstrous as to read his satires or even his comedies , and say that they contain no wit . The criticism of Scott , which complains that Dryden was apt to philosophise where he ought to have felt , is strikingly just ...
... seems to us as monstrous as to read his satires or even his comedies , and say that they contain no wit . The criticism of Scott , which complains that Dryden was apt to philosophise where he ought to have felt , is strikingly just ...
Σελίδα 10
... seems , nevertheless , to have been pro- longed beyond the ordinary period ; for it is related that he gained a scholarship at Trinity early in 1650. Scholarships , it is true , may have been disposed of , in his day , at an earlier ...
... seems , nevertheless , to have been pro- longed beyond the ordinary period ; for it is related that he gained a scholarship at Trinity early in 1650. Scholarships , it is true , may have been disposed of , in his day , at an earlier ...
Σελίδα 12
... seem to have been made a subject of reproach . Dryden's political friendships were gene- rally more useful and influential than they were lasting and sincere . He reckoned among them , not many years after the Restoration , the names of ...
... seem to have been made a subject of reproach . Dryden's political friendships were gene- rally more useful and influential than they were lasting and sincere . He reckoned among them , not many years after the Restoration , the names of ...
Σελίδα 16
... seems to have been held to rest in a play upon words . The reputed brilliancy of preceding generations was as vitiated as the diction of the Euphuists . Punning , however , was a venerable sin ; for it was a tradition of Anglo - Saxon ...
... seems to have been held to rest in a play upon words . The reputed brilliancy of preceding generations was as vitiated as the diction of the Euphuists . Punning , however , was a venerable sin ; for it was a tradition of Anglo - Saxon ...
Σελίδα 39
... seems to have entertained no other than literary ambition . He had , nevertheless , witnessed the rise of his con- temporaries from the humblest origin to the heigl of political power . Conscious of his talents - conscious that with the ...
... seems to have entertained no other than literary ambition . He had , nevertheless , witnessed the rise of his con- temporaries from the humblest origin to the heigl of political power . Conscious of his talents - conscious that with the ...
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Σελίδα 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Σελίδα 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Σελίδα 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Σελίδα 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Σελίδα 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Σελίδα 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Σελίδα 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Σελίδα 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Σελίδα 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Σελίδα 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!