The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumul 12A. Constable, 1808 |
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Pagina 15
... look grimly down , And on the fwelling ocean frown ; Then from the coaft they bore away , And reached the Holy Iland's bay . p . 24-86 . The picture of Constance before her judges , though more la- boured , is not , to our taste , so ...
... look grimly down , And on the fwelling ocean frown ; Then from the coaft they bore away , And reached the Holy Iland's bay . p . 24-86 . The picture of Constance before her judges , though more la- boured , is not , to our taste , so ...
Pagina 21
... look fo grim . ' p . 333 . We shall begin our extracts from the Flodden scenes , with the following moving picture of the passage of the English host through the deep vale of the Till , and of the fatal inactivity of the Scotish army ...
... look fo grim . ' p . 333 . We shall begin our extracts from the Flodden scenes , with the following moving picture of the passage of the English host through the deep vale of the Till , and of the fatal inactivity of the Scotish army ...
Pagina 34
... look upon it as a misapplication , in some degree , of very extraordinary talents , but because we cannot help considering it as the foundation of a new school , which may hereafter occasion no little annoyance both to us and to the ...
... look upon it as a misapplication , in some degree , of very extraordinary talents , but because we cannot help considering it as the foundation of a new school , which may hereafter occasion no little annoyance both to us and to the ...
Pagina 44
... look everywhere in vain for a more lucid arrangement and consistent exposition . The Indian system of geography we consider as extremely cu- rious in itself , and calculated to elucidate the antient history and geography of other ...
... look everywhere in vain for a more lucid arrangement and consistent exposition . The Indian system of geography we consider as extremely cu- rious in itself , and calculated to elucidate the antient history and geography of other ...
Pagina 59
... look upon these translations to be not the least valuable part of the book , we shall subjoin one or two . The beautiful address to Sleep , in the Sylva of Statius ( V. 4. ) , which is translated at p . 460 , commences thus . How have I ...
... look upon these translations to be not the least valuable part of the book , we shall subjoin one or two . The beautiful address to Sleep , in the Sylva of Statius ( V. 4. ) , which is translated at p . 460 , commences thus . How have I ...
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Pagina 450 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,— instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Pagina 443 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Pagina 444 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Pagina 18 - Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word.) " O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
Pagina 136 - Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye...
Pagina 355 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Pagina 11 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Pagina 131 - ... subject: but, instead of new images of tenderness, or delicate representation of intelligible feelings, he has contrived to tell us nothing whatever of the unfortunate fair one, but that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries
Pagina 134 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely...
Pagina 18 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.