Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Novels, tales, and prose works of fictionLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... Popular Tales , she has rendered an invaluable service to the middling and lower orders of the people ; and by her novels , and by the volumes before us , has made a great and meritorious effort to promote the happiness and ...
... Popular Tales , she has rendered an invaluable service to the middling and lower orders of the people ; and by her novels , and by the volumes before us , has made a great and meritorious effort to promote the happiness and ...
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... popular of our modern poems , than with the rubbish of provincial romances . The secret of this success , we take it , is merely that the author is a man of Genius ; and that he has , not- withstanding , had virtue enough to be true to ...
... popular of our modern poems , than with the rubbish of provincial romances . The secret of this success , we take it , is merely that the author is a man of Genius ; and that he has , not- withstanding , had virtue enough to be true to ...
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... popular of these popular productions that have appeared in our times , we must rank the works to which we have just alluded ; and we do not hesitate to say , that they are well entitled to that distinction . They are indeed , in many ...
... popular of these popular productions that have appeared in our times , we must rank the works to which we have just alluded ; and we do not hesitate to say , that they are well entitled to that distinction . They are indeed , in many ...
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... popular , that the great interest of his pieces is for the most part a Moral interest - that the concern we take in his fa- vourite characters is less on account of their adventures than of their amiableness - and that the great charm ...
... popular , that the great interest of his pieces is for the most part a Moral interest - that the concern we take in his fa- vourite characters is less on account of their adventures than of their amiableness - and that the great charm ...
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... popular appellation of Old Mortality . " — Vol . II . p . 7—18 . The scene of the story thus strikingly introduced is laid - in Scotland of course - in those disastrous times which immediately preceded the Revolution of 1688 ; and ...
... popular appellation of Old Mortality . " — Vol . II . p . 7—18 . The scene of the story thus strikingly introduced is laid - in Scotland of course - in those disastrous times which immediately preceded the Revolution of 1688 ; and ...
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Popularne fragmenty
Strona 621 - Each sought his pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick of red or blue, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder'd thro' the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet Along the pavement paced.
Strona 620 - mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, "The Playhouse is in flames !" And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every...
Strona 367 - I sauntered to the window and stood gazing at the people, picking their way to church, with petticoats hoisted midleg high, and dripping umbrellas. The bell ceased to toll, and the streets became silent. I then amused myself with watching the daughters of a tradesman opposite; who, being confined to the house for fear of wetting their Sunday finery, played off their charms at the front windows, to fascinate the chance tenants of the inn.
Strona 329 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Strona 409 - ... justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep...
Strona 694 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax, before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Strona 623 - MY pensive Public, wherefore look you sad ? I had a grandmother, she kept a donkey To carry to the mart her crockery ware, And when that donkey look'd me in the face, His face was sad ! and you are sad, my Public ! Joy should be yours : this tenth day of October Again assembles us in Drury Lane. Long wept my eye to see the timber planks That hid our ruins ; many a day I cried, Ah me ! I fear they never will rebuild it ! Till on one eve, one joyful Monday eve, As along...
Strona 511 - His wearing an uniform added greatly to his natural awkwardness ; for he wore it like a grocer of the trained bands. Sinclair was a lieutenant-general, and was sent to the courts of Vienna and Turin as a military envoy, to see that their quota of troops was furnished by the Austrians and Piedmontese. It was therefore thought necessary that his secretary should appear to be an officer ; and Hume was accordingly disguised in scarlet.
Strona 589 - I am told it. But I cherish too the consolatory hope, that I shall be able to tell them that I had an old and learned friend, whom I would put above all the sweepings of their hall, who was of a different opinion; who had derived his ideas of civil liberty from the purest fountains of Athens and of Rome; who had fed the youthful vigour of his studious mind, with the theoretic knowledge of their wisest philosophers and statesmen...
Strona 549 - Horatio— heavens, what a transition!—it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene! Old things were done away; and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to the prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.