The Monthly ReviewHurst, Robinson, 1826 |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 96
Pagina 2
... writers have unanimously agreed in referring to scriptural exhibitions for the origin and rise of the English stage ; and they have usually been quite as diffuse on their notice of them as the occasion deserved . Not to mention names of ...
... writers have unanimously agreed in referring to scriptural exhibitions for the origin and rise of the English stage ; and they have usually been quite as diffuse on their notice of them as the occasion deserved . Not to mention names of ...
Pagina 7
... writers on the history of the stage . As the incidents of these religious plays were not only founded on Holy Writ , but taken in series from the Old and New Testaments , the exhibition endeavoured to copy without scruple or repugnance ...
... writers on the history of the stage . As the incidents of these religious plays were not only founded on Holy Writ , but taken in series from the Old and New Testaments , the exhibition endeavoured to copy without scruple or repugnance ...
Pagina 32
... writer , gifted with the great faculty to dip his pencil in the heart , than such a subject . The rapid summoning up of the spirits that live concealed in our nature , but that will come up only when the legitimate passion puts forth ...
... writer , gifted with the great faculty to dip his pencil in the heart , than such a subject . The rapid summoning up of the spirits that live concealed in our nature , but that will come up only when the legitimate passion puts forth ...
Pagina 35
... writer who laid claim to public attention . Blount now wanders into Italy , gives way to licentiousness , and consoles himself by the exhausted and idle plea , that life is now in- supportable without strong excitement . This plea ...
... writer who laid claim to public attention . Blount now wanders into Italy , gives way to licentiousness , and consoles himself by the exhausted and idle plea , that life is now in- supportable without strong excitement . This plea ...
Pagina 38
... elegance of taste and superfine delicacy of feeling may be the excuses ; but the true reason is to be found in grossness of appetite and vulgarity of mind . This writer allows himself to fall into a good deal 38 Blount's MSS .
... elegance of taste and superfine delicacy of feeling may be the excuses ; but the true reason is to be found in grossness of appetite and vulgarity of mind . This writer allows himself to fall into a good deal 38 Blount's MSS .
Cuprins
| 12 | |
| 32 | |
| 39 | |
| 52 | |
| 96 | |
| 108 | |
| 122 | |
| 131 | |
| 326 | |
| 332 | |
| 375 | |
| 398 | |
| 420 | |
| 431 | |
| 438 | |
| 445 | |
| 195 | |
| 203 | |
| 215 | |
| 221 | |
| 235 | |
| 261 | |
| 271 | |
| 280 | |
| 293 | |
| 302 | |
| 314 | |
| 459 | |
| 470 | |
| 479 | |
| 496 | |
| 507 | |
| 533 | |
| 541 | |
| 543 | |
| 548 | |
| 549 | |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Termeni și expresii frecvente
admiration amusing ancient Andrew Halliday appears attention beautiful Bellerophon Captain Duff character Chile circumstances course court death Deccan effect empire endeavoured England English Evelyn eyes father favour feeling fortune France French Galmoy Gaston de Blondeville German give Guelph hand Hawk-eye Henry Henry the Lion honour imagination interest island Italian Italy king Kouka labour lady language latter laws least living London Lord Louis XV M'Donnell Madame Maharashtra Mahratta Mahratta empire manner Marie Antoinette marriage means memoirs ment mind narrative native nature never noble object observed occasion officers opinion original party perhaps person piece political possession present Prince princess queen racter reader reign remarkable respect Roman royal Sardinia Satara scarcely scene seems spirit style taste thing tion Vescovato volume whole writer young
Pasaje populare
Pagina 63 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pagina 376 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Pagina 120 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Pagina 376 - ... would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these...
Pagina 129 - Historical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and .Romans ; in which Elephants and Wild Beasts were employed or slain : and the remarkable local agreement of History with the remains of such Animals found in Europe and Siberia.
Pagina 244 - I, for example, been asked, whether customary freeholders or copyholders, by the custom of the manor, but not at the will of the lord...
Pagina 194 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading ; Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer : And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin), yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. Ever witness for him Those twins of learning that he raised in you, Ipswich and Oxford! one* of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,...
Pagina 137 - A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving : with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable...
Pagina 137 - Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil; and now Advanced in view they stand, a horrid* front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms, in guise Of warriors old, with ordered spear and shield, Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose.
Pagina 213 - The Surrender of Napoleon. Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board HMS Bellerophon...