The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Band 70Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1790 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... honoured and the victor adored ; the fongs of his bards raise him to the high- est fame ; and it is the complaint of Offian , whether Scots or Irish , of the fourth or the fourteenth century , is of little im- portance , that he could ...
... honoured and the victor adored ; the fongs of his bards raise him to the high- est fame ; and it is the complaint of Offian , whether Scots or Irish , of the fourth or the fourteenth century , is of little im- portance , that he could ...
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... honour of their country is applauded in the most rapturous terms ; and mifs Brooke has imbibed no fmall portion of their fpirit . Her zeal indeed , like theirs , fometimes overflows the bounds of discretion . The productions of our ...
... honour of their country is applauded in the most rapturous terms ; and mifs Brooke has imbibed no fmall portion of their fpirit . Her zeal indeed , like theirs , fometimes overflows the bounds of discretion . The productions of our ...
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... honour - in his death . " But , ah Cucullin ! -daun lefs knight ! - Ah ! had ' thou better mark'd the fight ! " Thy skill in arms might foon have made thee know That I was only half a foe ! " Thou would't have teen , for glory though I ...
... honour - in his death . " But , ah Cucullin ! -daun lefs knight ! - Ah ! had ' thou better mark'd the fight ! " Thy skill in arms might foon have made thee know That I was only half a foe ! " Thou would't have teen , for glory though I ...
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... honour redounds to the pres fent generation of the Irish , if it be allowed that their country was in a ftate of high civilization when the reft of Europe was immerfed in barbarifm ; fince , admitting the fact , they muft have ...
... honour redounds to the pres fent generation of the Irish , if it be allowed that their country was in a ftate of high civilization when the reft of Europe was immerfed in barbarifm ; fince , admitting the fact , they muft have ...
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... honour's glorious road . To load with death the hoftile field In blood , his might proclaim ; Our land with wide protection fhield , And wing to heaven his fame ! ' 7 He He proceeds to enumerate a variety of Finn's exploits , 18 ...
... honour's glorious road . To load with death the hoftile field In blood , his might proclaim ; Our land with wide protection fhield , And wing to heaven his fame ! ' 7 He He proceeds to enumerate a variety of Finn's exploits , 18 ...
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Seite 599 - Here then we have a man of liberal attainments, and in other points of sound judgment, who had addicted his life to the service of the gospel. We see him, in the prosecution of his purpose, travelling from country to country, enduring every species of hardship, encountering every extremity of danger, assaulted by the populace, punished by the magistrates, scourged, beat...
Seite 655 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Seite 488 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 105 - I have always remarked that women in all countries are civil, obliging, tender, and humane; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest; and that they do not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant...
Seite 489 - ... could trust in as a friend, and could love as a brother: This is the man, whom in your heart above all others, you do, you must, honour. SUCH a character, imperfectly as it has now been drawn, all must acknowledge to be formed solely by the influence of steady religion and virtue. It is...
Seite 655 - Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once furprifed and terrified by a fight furely one of the moft magnificent in the •world. In that vaft expanfe of defert, from W.
Seite 472 - Luc with regard to the Theory of Rain. By James Hutton, MD FRS Edin. and Member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Paris.— As we could not give a particular account of M.
Seite 105 - ... have been performed in fo free, and fo kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the fweeteft draught, and if hungry, I eat the coarfe morfel with a double telifo.
Seite 422 - ... fawningly against the breast of a man, who had attracted his notice among the crowd, and delivered the book to him. The dog immediately returned to the place where he had landed, and watched with great attention for all the things that came from the wrecked vessel, seizing • them, and endeavouring to bring them to land.
Seite 420 - The principal external appearances which distinguish this breed of cattle from all others, are the following : — Their colour is invariably white ; muzzles black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside, from the tip downwards, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards : some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long.