The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 118. köideA. Constable, 1863 |
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... successful in solving its mysteries said that he was ' not sure that the indentures on the stone were not natural , but ' on observing them carefully , and their regularity , and comparing them with the natural impressions which were ...
... successful in solving its mysteries said that he was ' not sure that the indentures on the stone were not natural , but ' on observing them carefully , and their regularity , and comparing them with the natural impressions which were ...
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... success in applying the dome to the Latin cross ; it has failed in working out a new idea , when it has dressed out Gothic towers and spires in a classical garb . It has erred in introducing pieces of entablature between piers and ...
... success in applying the dome to the Latin cross ; it has failed in working out a new idea , when it has dressed out Gothic towers and spires in a classical garb . It has erred in introducing pieces of entablature between piers and ...
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... after all , supposing it successful , is this an aim worthy of the most truthful and mechanical of the arts ? ' ( p . 309. ) C The question applies with as much force to the Gothic 92 July , Fergusson's History of the.
... after all , supposing it successful , is this an aim worthy of the most truthful and mechanical of the arts ? ' ( p . 309. ) C The question applies with as much force to the Gothic 92 July , Fergusson's History of the.
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... successful in encroaching on the domains of its antagonist . He knows that both are wrong , and that neither can , consequently , advance the cause of true art . His one hope lies in the knowledge that there is a tertium quid , a style ...
... successful in encroaching on the domains of its antagonist . He knows that both are wrong , and that neither can , consequently , advance the cause of true art . His one hope lies in the knowledge that there is a tertium quid , a style ...
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... success , and of the rege- neration of France through their means . But he has held them usually in calm reserve ; never gone out of his way to obtrude them , or himself in conjunction with them , on public notice ; never joined , so ...
... success , and of the rege- neration of France through their means . But he has held them usually in calm reserve ; never gone out of his way to obtrude them , or himself in conjunction with them , on public notice ; never joined , so ...
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Page 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Page 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Page 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Page 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Page 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Page 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.