The American Whig Review, Volúmenes9-15Wiley and Putnam, 1852 |
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... critic- that originality which elevated him to a posi- tion unequalled in France - was of a lofty character . Before him , criticism kept in a special narrow path , aiming solely to teach the art of writing correctly and of expressing ...
... critic- that originality which elevated him to a posi- tion unequalled in France - was of a lofty character . Before him , criticism kept in a special narrow path , aiming solely to teach the art of writing correctly and of expressing ...
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... critic . Such is the vast stock of knowledge whence M. Villemain drew the multitude of parallels , the luminous illustrations , which characterize his lectures on French literature . When M. Villemain takes up the pen , he ceases to be ...
... critic . Such is the vast stock of knowledge whence M. Villemain drew the multitude of parallels , the luminous illustrations , which characterize his lectures on French literature . When M. Villemain takes up the pen , he ceases to be ...
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... critics . Men of competent learning and observation have declared in favor of his erudition , however acquired ; and were a true finding to be taken from the votes of the majority , the verdict would run in his VOL . IX . NO . I. NEW ...
... critics . Men of competent learning and observation have declared in favor of his erudition , however acquired ; and were a true finding to be taken from the votes of the majority , the verdict would run in his VOL . IX . NO . I. NEW ...
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... critics and commentators ! ) he knew and practised the law of the dramatic unities as well and as exactly as the most rigid Greek or Ro- man of them all ; and his apparent depar- ture from them was the result of deliberate judgment and ...
... critics and commentators ! ) he knew and practised the law of the dramatic unities as well and as exactly as the most rigid Greek or Ro- man of them all ; and his apparent depar- ture from them was the result of deliberate judgment and ...
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... critic , " per- haps enough of his schoolboy learning to put the hig , hæg , hog ' into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans , and might pick up , in the writers of the time , or the course of his conver- sation , a familiar phrase or two of ...
... critic , " per- haps enough of his schoolboy learning to put the hig , hæg , hog ' into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans , and might pick up , in the writers of the time , or the course of his conver- sation , a familiar phrase or two of ...
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Página 122 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 351 - I believe I fancied her too much interested in personal history ; and her talk was a comedy in which dramatic justice was done to everybody's foibles. I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism...
Página 18 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Página 123 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Página 20 - He remembered perhaps enough of his school-boy learning to put the Hig, hag, hog, into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans ; and might pick up in the writers of the time, or the course of his conversation, a familiar phrase or two of French or Italian : but his studies were most demonstratively confined to nature and his own language.
Página 189 - ... and accommodation of a great number. The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. The inhabitants of the one must always enjoy a much greater quantity of subsistence than what their own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford. The inhabitants of the other must always enjoy a much smaller quantity.
Página 188 - Sir : It is a remarkable fact in the history of mankind, that while, through all the past, honors were bestowed upon glory, and glory was attached only to success, the legislative authorities of this great republic •bestow...
Página 460 - I send you this letter by an envoy of my own appointment, an officer of high rank in his country, who is no missionary of religion. He goes by my command, to bear to you my greeting and good wishes, and to promote friendship and commerce between the two countries.
Página 279 - You have set us the example ; you have quit your own to stand on foreign ground ; you have abandoned the policy you professed in the day of your weakness, to interfere in the affairs of the people upon this continent, in behalf of those principles, the supremacy of which you say is necessary to your prosperity, to your existence. We, in our...
Página 189 - A small quantity of manufactured produce purchases a great quantity of rude produce. A trading and manufacturing country, therefore, naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce a great part of the rude produce of other countries...