The Monthly critical gazette, Volumen1Knight and Lacey, 1824 |
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... merit of adhering closely to the original ; which defect we should not so readily have recognised , but for the grand majestic outline , which nothing can disguise . 66 My soul is in Madrid , " is simple and pretty . We give it as an ...
... merit of adhering closely to the original ; which defect we should not so readily have recognised , but for the grand majestic outline , which nothing can disguise . 66 My soul is in Madrid , " is simple and pretty . We give it as an ...
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... merit of having invented a jargon , neither English , Scotch , nor German ; but a mixture of all three , which is of prodigious service to him , inasmuch as it not only , in some degree , enables him to conceal his paucity of original ...
... merit of having invented a jargon , neither English , Scotch , nor German ; but a mixture of all three , which is of prodigious service to him , inasmuch as it not only , in some degree , enables him to conceal his paucity of original ...
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... merit . It is written in the purest Greek , and that is all that they praise . The " Birds of Aristophanes " is not , certainly , a pointless , driftless mass of absurdity , as we used to think it in our boyish days ; but , whatever the ...
... merit . It is written in the purest Greek , and that is all that they praise . The " Birds of Aristophanes " is not , certainly , a pointless , driftless mass of absurdity , as we used to think it in our boyish days ; but , whatever the ...
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... merit would never have enabled them to attract the notice with which they have been honoured ; but the author of the Sketch Book is in fashion ; and , strange as it may seem , fashion no where holds a more despotic sway than in the ...
... merit would never have enabled them to attract the notice with which they have been honoured ; but the author of the Sketch Book is in fashion ; and , strange as it may seem , fashion no where holds a more despotic sway than in the ...
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... merit as to the style ; but , in other respects , they present , for the most part , only a mass of common - places , dressed out in all the pomp with which un- important subjects are usually loaded by a very young writer , who imagines ...
... merit as to the style ; but , in other respects , they present , for the most part , only a mass of common - places , dressed out in all the pomp with which un- important subjects are usually loaded by a very young writer , who imagines ...
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Página 64 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Página 390 - I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 391 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Página 390 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 296 - THERE are three things, young gentleman," said Nelson to one of his Midshipmen, "which you are constantly to bear in mind. First, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king ; and, thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil.
Página 395 - All the idols or images were examined and put in order, and a grand dance was supposed not only to be an agreeable entertainment for the Great Being, but it was believed that it might, with the addition of a sacrifice, contribute to appease him, if he was angry with them.
Página 457 - Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brooked control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?
Página 341 - But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible all over the world the materials of wealth and prosperity.
Página 390 - I walked towards the top of the street gazing about till near Market Street, where I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's, he directed me to. I asked for biscuits, meaning such as we had at Boston; that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a threepenny loaf, and was told they had none.
Página 296 - Suckling, and he valued it like a relic. Nisbet, who was close to him, placed him at the bottom of the boat, and laid his hat over the shattered arm, lest the sight of the blood, which gushed out in great abundance, should increase his faintness. He then examined the wound, and taking some silk handkerchiefs from his neck, bound them tightly above the lacerated vessels.