Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Novels, tales, and prose works of fictionLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... whole , receive it into considerable authority among the regulators of their lives and opinions . But a fashion- able person has scarcely any leisure to read ; and none to think of what he has been reading . It would be a derogation ...
... whole , receive it into considerable authority among the regulators of their lives and opinions . But a fashion- able person has scarcely any leisure to read ; and none to think of what he has been reading . It would be a derogation ...
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... whole of this second course should ever be placed altogether rightly upon the table . Mrs. Raffarty cleared her throat and nodded , and pointed , and sighed , and set Larry after Kenny , and Kenny after Larry ; for what one did , the ...
... whole of this second course should ever be placed altogether rightly upon the table . Mrs. Raffarty cleared her throat and nodded , and pointed , and sighed , and set Larry after Kenny , and Kenny after Larry ; for what one did , the ...
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... whole manner and cast of the characters being accurately moulded on their condition and the finer attributes that are ascribed to them so blended and harmonized with the native rudeness and simplicity of their life and occupations ...
... whole manner and cast of the characters being accurately moulded on their condition and the finer attributes that are ascribed to them so blended and harmonized with the native rudeness and simplicity of their life and occupations ...
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... whole , a miscar- riage ; though interspersed with passages of great force and energy . The denouement which connects it with the active hero of the piece , is altogether forced and un- natural . We come now , at once , to the work imme ...
... whole , a miscar- riage ; though interspersed with passages of great force and energy . The denouement which connects it with the active hero of the piece , is altogether forced and un- natural . We come now , at once , to the work imme ...
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... whole acts of the tragedy will be found to have en- joyed a fair average share of felicity , and to have been much less impressed by the shocking events of their day , than those who know nothing else of it than that such events took ...
... whole acts of the tragedy will be found to have en- joyed a fair average share of felicity , and to have been much less impressed by the shocking events of their day , than those who know nothing else of it than that such events took ...
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Page 621 - Each sought his pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick of red or blue, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder'd thro' the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet Along the pavement paced.
Page 620 - mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, "The Playhouse is in flames !" And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every...
Page 367 - I sauntered to the window and stood gazing at the people, picking their way to church, with petticoats hoisted midleg high, and dripping umbrellas. The bell ceased to toll, and the streets became silent. I then amused myself with watching the daughters of a tradesman opposite; who, being confined to the house for fear of wetting their Sunday finery, played off their charms at the front windows, to fascinate the chance tenants of the inn.
Page 329 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Page 409 - ... justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep...
Page 694 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax, before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 623 - MY pensive Public, wherefore look you sad ? I had a grandmother, she kept a donkey To carry to the mart her crockery ware, And when that donkey look'd me in the face, His face was sad ! and you are sad, my Public ! Joy should be yours : this tenth day of October Again assembles us in Drury Lane. Long wept my eye to see the timber planks That hid our ruins ; many a day I cried, Ah me ! I fear they never will rebuild it ! Till on one eve, one joyful Monday eve, As along...
Page 511 - His wearing an uniform added greatly to his natural awkwardness ; for he wore it like a grocer of the trained bands. Sinclair was a lieutenant-general, and was sent to the courts of Vienna and Turin as a military envoy, to see that their quota of troops was furnished by the Austrians and Piedmontese. It was therefore thought necessary that his secretary should appear to be an officer ; and Hume was accordingly disguised in scarlet.
Page 589 - I am told it. But I cherish too the consolatory hope, that I shall be able to tell them that I had an old and learned friend, whom I would put above all the sweepings of their hall, who was of a different opinion; who had derived his ideas of civil liberty from the purest fountains of Athens and of Rome; who had fed the youthful vigour of his studious mind, with the theoretic knowledge of their wisest philosophers and statesmen...
Page 549 - Horatio— heavens, what a transition!—it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene! Old things were done away; and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to the prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.