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Strona 130
... Gil Blas . ' There is one incident the same , that of the unsavoury ragout , which is served for supper at the inn . In all other respects these two works are the very reverse of each other , both in their excellences and defects ...
... Gil Blas . ' There is one incident the same , that of the unsavoury ragout , which is served for supper at the inn . In all other respects these two works are the very reverse of each other , both in their excellences and defects ...
Strona 131
... Gil Blas ' has , next to ' Don Quixote , ' been more generally read and admired than any other novel ; and in one sense de- servedly so for it is at the head of its class , though that class is very different from , and I should say ...
... Gil Blas ' has , next to ' Don Quixote , ' been more generally read and admired than any other novel ; and in one sense de- servedly so for it is at the head of its class , though that class is very different from , and I should say ...
Strona 132
... Gil Blas ; ' Smollett is more like ' Gil Blas ' than ' Don Quixote ; ' but there is not much resemblance in either case . Sterne's ' Tristram Shandy ' is a more direct in- stance of imitation . Richardson can scarcely be called an imi ...
... Gil Blas ; ' Smollett is more like ' Gil Blas ' than ' Don Quixote ; ' but there is not much resemblance in either case . Sterne's ' Tristram Shandy ' is a more direct in- stance of imitation . Richardson can scarcely be called an imi ...
Strona 136
... Gil Blas , ' might happen to a hundred other characters . He exhibits the ridicu- lous accidents and reverses to which human life is liable , not " the stuff " of which it is composed . He seldom probes to the quick , or penetrates ...
... Gil Blas , ' might happen to a hundred other characters . He exhibits the ridicu- lous accidents and reverses to which human life is liable , not " the stuff " of which it is composed . He seldom probes to the quick , or penetrates ...
Strona 167
... Gil Blas , ' which it requires a strong stomach to di- gest . Mr. Wilkie presents us with a sort of lenten fare , very good and wholesome , but rather insipid than overpowering ! Mr. Wilkie's pictures are , in general , much better ...
... Gil Blas , ' which it requires a strong stomach to di- gest . Mr. Wilkie presents us with a sort of lenten fare , very good and wholesome , but rather insipid than overpowering ! Mr. Wilkie's pictures are , in general , much better ...
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Strona 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Strona 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Strona 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Strona 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Strona 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Strona 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Strona 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Strona 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Strona 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Strona 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.