Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853 |
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... able than those of Greece and Rome . But the worst English writings of the seventeenth century are de- cent , compared with much that has been bequeathed to us by Greece and Rome . Plato , we have little doubt , was a much better man ...
... able than those of Greece and Rome . But the worst English writings of the seventeenth century are de- cent , compared with much that has been bequeathed to us by Greece and Rome . Plato , we have little doubt , was a much better man ...
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... able distinction . The Puritan spoke with disdain of the low standard of popular morality ; his life was regulated by a far more rigid code ; his virtue was sustained by motives unknown to men of the world . Unhappily it had been amply ...
... able distinction . The Puritan spoke with disdain of the low standard of popular morality ; his life was regulated by a far more rigid code ; his virtue was sustained by motives unknown to men of the world . Unhappily it had been amply ...
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... able to keep their feet in a breeze , served on board of the King's ships , sometimes with commissions , and sometimes as volunteers . Mulgrave , Dorset , Roches- ter , and many others , left the playhouses and the Mall for hammocks and ...
... able to keep their feet in a breeze , served on board of the King's ships , sometimes with commissions , and sometimes as volunteers . Mulgrave , Dorset , Roches- ter , and many others , left the playhouses and the Mall for hammocks and ...
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... able society was unbounded , established it in the public favour . The fortune of Wycherley was now in the zenith , and began to decline . A long life was still before him . But it was destined to be filled with nothing but shame and ...
... able society was unbounded , established it in the public favour . The fortune of Wycherley was now in the zenith , and began to decline . A long life was still before him . But it was destined to be filled with nothing but shame and ...
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... able service to his compositions . But at last his thanks began to sound very like reproaches . In private , he is said to have described Pope as a person who could not cut out a suit , but who had some skill in turning old coats . In ...
... able service to his compositions . But at last his thanks began to sound very like reproaches . In private , he is said to have described Pope as a person who could not cut out a suit , but who had some skill in turning old coats . In ...
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Page 178 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 179 - ... a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.
Page 35 - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Page 36 - I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not th...
Page 341 - 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 166 - ... with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which...
Page 182 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 306 - 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 materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of better books.
Page 287 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
Page 181 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and hostile chancellor, and for a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their .taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out, smelling bottles were handed round, hysterical...