The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen83Archibald Constable and Company, 1819 |
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... fair specimen of Dante's peculiar cast of conception and pictur- ing . His pictures , in general , consist of only one or two figures . Here it is an angel moving through the dark- ness of Hell , over a pitchy lake ; at first ...
... fair specimen of Dante's peculiar cast of conception and pictur- ing . His pictures , in general , consist of only one or two figures . Here it is an angel moving through the dark- ness of Hell , over a pitchy lake ; at first ...
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... fair trial , we have had a covered one for some time in our possession . We have found , however , that the instrument , in this state , is exceedingly sluggish in its movements , frequently remain- ing a considerable time stationary af ...
... fair trial , we have had a covered one for some time in our possession . We have found , however , that the instrument , in this state , is exceedingly sluggish in its movements , frequently remain- ing a considerable time stationary af ...
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... fair thoughts with the most extravagant conceits , and ar- rayed pathos and feeling in the most ridiculous masquerade dresses . They served poor poetry as fashion served the women ; dressed it up in silks , and furbelows , and hoops ...
... fair thoughts with the most extravagant conceits , and ar- rayed pathos and feeling in the most ridiculous masquerade dresses . They served poor poetry as fashion served the women ; dressed it up in silks , and furbelows , and hoops ...
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... fair play . He became , however , a passionate lo- gician . The finest and most impas- sioned openings in his poetry die of excessive reasoning , or are stiffed with heavy and lumbering conceits . Mr Hazlitt quotes the following lines ...
... fair play . He became , however , a passionate lo- gician . The finest and most impas- sioned openings in his poetry die of excessive reasoning , or are stiffed with heavy and lumbering conceits . Mr Hazlitt quotes the following lines ...
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... fairs , one whereof continues six days , the others one day each ; and in their neighbour- hood are the following burghs of re- gality and barony , viz .: Hamilton , Paisley , Greenock , and Crawforddyke , which are places of ...
... fairs , one whereof continues six days , the others one day each ; and in their neighbour- hood are the following burghs of re- gality and barony , viz .: Hamilton , Paisley , Greenock , and Crawforddyke , which are places of ...
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Página 213 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 212 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Página 116 - Part loosely wing the region; part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight : so steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds : the air Floats as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes.
Página 115 - Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour watch...
Página 215 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Página 197 - All laws against wickedness are ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and prosecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punishing a slight injury with death; especially when he remembers that the thief might have procured safety by another crime, from which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue.
Página 143 - His style is inimitable, nay perfect. It is the highest model of comic dialogue. Every sentence is replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a new triumph of wit, a new conquest over dulness.
Página 212 - To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ! I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And, on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Página 212 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Página 115 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...