Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform], Volume 4Longmans, Green, 1885 |
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... ment of such men that the rank of authors is finally determined . It is neither to the multitude , nor to the few who are gifted with great creative genius , that we are to look for sound critical decisions . The multi- tude ...
... ment of such men that the rank of authors is finally determined . It is neither to the multitude , nor to the few who are gifted with great creative genius , that we are to look for sound critical decisions . The multi- tude ...
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... ment of art she had , we think , very distinguished skill . But in order that we may , according to our duty as kings at arms , versed in the laws of literary pre- cedence , marshal her to the exact seat to which she is entitled , we ...
... ment of art she had , we think , very distinguished skill . But in order that we may , according to our duty as kings at arms , versed in the laws of literary pre- cedence , marshal her to the exact seat to which she is entitled , we ...
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... ment , he published an interesting volume on the Polity and Religion of Barbary , and another on the Hebrew Customs and the State of Rabbinical Learn- ing . He rose to eminence in his profession , and became one of the royal chaplains ...
... ment , he published an interesting volume on the Polity and Religion of Barbary , and another on the Hebrew Customs and the State of Rabbinical Learn- ing . He rose to eminence in his profession , and became one of the royal chaplains ...
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... ment , seldom went either to Court or to the Academy , and was almost inaccessible to strangers . Of the English and of English literature he knew nothing . He had hardly heard the name of Dryden . Some of our countrymen , in the warmth ...
... ment , seldom went either to Court or to the Academy , and was almost inaccessible to strangers . Of the English and of English literature he knew nothing . He had hardly heard the name of Dryden . Some of our countrymen , in the warmth ...
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... ment and penetration . In mere style , abstracted from the ideas of which style is the garb , his taste was excellent . He was well acquainted with the great Greek writers ; and , though unable fully to ap- preciate their creative ...
... ment and penetration . In mere style , abstracted from the ideas of which style is the garb , his taste was excellent . He was well acquainted with the great Greek writers ; and , though unable fully to ap- preciate their creative ...
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Page 149 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 114 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Page 155 - His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper ; but his gaiety is that of a foolish overgrown schoolboy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. He disdains his father for his close attention to business, and love of money ; though he seems himself to have no talents, spirit, or generosity, to make him superior to either. His chief delight appears to be tormenting and ridiculing his sisters ; who, in return, most heartily despise him.
Page 306 - We are inclined to think, on the whole, that the worst administration which has governed England since the Revolution was that of George Grenville. His public acts may be classed under two heads — outrages on the liberty of the people, and outrages on the dignity of the Crown.
Page 22 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Page 242 - B known to us of their intercourse tends to prove, that it was not the intercourse of two accomplices in crime. These are some of the lines in which Tickell...
Page 178 - ... pretended to serve. It had become necessary to recruit for the public service from a very different class, from that class of which Addison was the representative. The close of the Minister's letter was remarkable. " I am called," he said, "an enemy of the Church. But I will never do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it.
Page 192 - Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or remit a subsidy : he was also well versed in the history of running horses and fighting cocks : but his acquaintance among the poets was very small. He consulted Halifax ; but Halifax affected to decline the office of adviser.
Page 227 - Addison was described, even by the bitterest Tory writers, as a gentleman of wit and virtue, in whose friendship many persons of both parties were happy, and whose name ought not to be mixed up with factious squabbles. Of the jests by which the triumph of the Whig party was disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against...
Page 196 - Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men.