Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 63
... once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination , like that of the ...
... once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination , like that of the ...
Page 67
... once besieged their sovereign in his own palace , and ex- torted from him the most humiliating concessions . The Sul- tans have often been compelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular Vizier ...
... once besieged their sovereign in his own palace , and ex- torted from him the most humiliating concessions . The Sul- tans have often been compelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular Vizier ...
Page 76
... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be forgotten even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that opera- tions , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be forgotten even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that opera- tions , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
Page 83
... once enterprising and timid , men equally skilled in detecting the purposes of others , and in concealing their own , men who must have been formidable enemies and unsafe allies , but men , at the same time , whose tempers were mild and ...
... once enterprising and timid , men equally skilled in detecting the purposes of others , and in concealing their own , men who must have been formidable enemies and unsafe allies , but men , at the same time , whose tempers were mild and ...
Page 89
... once trite and affected , threadbare tinsel from the Rag Fairs and Monmouth Streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might write such a piece , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable introduction ...
... once trite and affected , threadbare tinsel from the Rag Fairs and Monmouth Streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might write such a piece , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable introduction ...
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