Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Longmans, Green and Company, 1874 |
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... forced by assiduous til- lage to yield thin crops of rye and oats . In other places the ancient forests , from which the conquerors of the Roman empire had descended on the Danube , remained untouched by the hand of man . Where the soil ...
... forced by assiduous til- lage to yield thin crops of rye and oats . In other places the ancient forests , from which the conquerors of the Roman empire had descended on the Danube , remained untouched by the hand of man . Where the soil ...
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... forced to swallow food so nauseous that he could not keep it on his stomach . Once his father knocked him down , dragged him along the floor to a window , and was with difficulty prevented from strangling him with the cord of the ...
... forced to swallow food so nauseous that he could not keep it on his stomach . Once his father knocked him down , dragged him along the floor to a window , and was with difficulty prevented from strangling him with the cord of the ...
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... forced to own that , even with such help , he could not understand the translation . Yet , though he had neglected his mother tongue in order to bestow all his attention on French , his French was , after all , the French of a foreigner ...
... forced to own that , even with such help , he could not understand the translation . Yet , though he had neglected his mother tongue in order to bestow all his attention on French , his French was , after all , the French of a foreigner ...
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... forced to work all the year round like negro slaves in the time of the sugar - crop . They never had a holi- day . They never knew what it was to dine . It was necessary that , before they stirred , they should finish the whole of their ...
... forced to work all the year round like negro slaves in the time of the sugar - crop . They never had a holi- day . They never knew what it was to dine . It was necessary that , before they stirred , they should finish the whole of their ...
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... forced to go to certain schools within the Prussian dominions . If a young Prussian repaired , though but for a few weeks , to Leyden or Gottingen for the purpose of study , the offence was punished with civil disabilities , and some ...
... forced to go to certain schools within the Prussian dominions . If a young Prussian repaired , though but for a few weeks , to Leyden or Gottingen for the purpose of study , the offence was punished with civil disabilities , and some ...
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Page 210 - even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility. But this was the smallest part of Addison's praise. Had he clothed his thoughts in the half French style of Horace Walpole, or in the half Latin style of Dr.
Page 112 - 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 252 - Campagna, and had restrained the avalanches of Mont Cenis. Of the Psalms, his favorite was that which represents the Ruler of all things under the endearing image of a shepherd, whose crook guides the flock safe, through gloomy and desolate glens, to meadows well watered and rich with herbage. On that goodness to which he ascribed all the happiness of his life, he relied in the hour of death with the love which casteth out fear. He died on the 17th of June, 1719. He had just entered on his forty-eighth...
Page 162 - Blair's, and a tragedy not very much better than Dr. Johnson's. It is praise enough to say of a writer that, in a high department of literature in which many eminent writers have distinguished themselves, he has had no equal; and this may with strict justice be said of Addison. As a man he may not have deserved the adoration which he received from those who, bewitched by his fascinating society, and indebted for all the comforts of life to his generous and delicate friendship, worshiped him nightly...
Page 220 - Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of the common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds
Page 195 - 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.
Page 240 - ... degree. All that is known to us of their intercourse tends to prove, that it was not the intercourse of two accomplices in crime. These...
Page 20 - 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 260 - ... which stirred the passions and charmed the imagination, a high reputation for purity, and the confidence and ardent love of millions. The partition which the two ministers made of the powers of government was singularly happy. Each occupied a province for which he was well qualified ; and neither had any inclination to intrude himself into the province of the other. Newcastle took the treasury, the civil and ecclesiastical patronage, and the disposal of that part of the secret service money which...