Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 20
... tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing but such circumstantial touches could produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ...
... tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing but such circumstantial touches could produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ...
Page 38
... tell us , were the offspring of the Great Rebellion . Be it so . We are not careful to answer in this matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to ...
... tell us , were the offspring of the Great Rebellion . Be it so . We are not careful to answer in this matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to ...
Page 40
... tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some myste- rious law of her nature , was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ...
... tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some myste- rious law of her nature , was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ...
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... telling a story by implication and allusion . Mr. Hallam , however , has an excuse which Gibbon had not . His work is designed for readers who are already acquainted with the ordinary books on English history , and who can therefore ...
... telling a story by implication and allusion . Mr. Hallam , however , has an excuse which Gibbon had not . His work is designed for readers who are already acquainted with the ordinary books on English history , and who can therefore ...
Page 170
... tells of that affair reminds us of the excuses by which Bessus and Bobadil explain their cudgelings . A Scotch nobleman , it seems , begged the King not to run upon his death , took hold of his bridle , and turned his horse round . No ...
... tells of that affair reminds us of the excuses by which Bessus and Bobadil explain their cudgelings . A Scotch nobleman , it seems , begged the King not to run upon his death , took hold of his bridle , and turned his horse round . No ...
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