The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... effect , to be less than one fourth as great in every branch where its action is only indirect . By the power of steam every machine to which it is applied receives , not an addition , but a multiplication of force . The power thus ...
... effect , to be less than one fourth as great in every branch where its action is only indirect . By the power of steam every machine to which it is applied receives , not an addition , but a multiplication of force . The power thus ...
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... effect , to be less than one fourth as great in every branch where its action is only indirect . By the power of steam every machine to which it is applied receives , not an addition , but a multiplication of force . The power thus ...
... effect , to be less than one fourth as great in every branch where its action is only indirect . By the power of steam every machine to which it is applied receives , not an addition , but a multiplication of force . The power thus ...
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... effect as excited the astonishment of the guests - the artist was called in , and he came blushing to receive the caresses of the company and the first applauses of that kind and opulent family . Its head had the sense to see Canova's ...
... effect as excited the astonishment of the guests - the artist was called in , and he came blushing to receive the caresses of the company and the first applauses of that kind and opulent family . Its head had the sense to see Canova's ...
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... effect of quite a different kind . The Faust , though it be called a tragedy on its title - page , is in fact , and was designed to be , a Mystery ; and the reader loses a great deal in not being compelled to recognize , from the very ...
... effect of quite a different kind . The Faust , though it be called a tragedy on its title - page , is in fact , and was designed to be , a Mystery ; and the reader loses a great deal in not being compelled to recognize , from the very ...
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... effect of his three bare common words is terrible . It is among the highest triumphs of genius to blend , without producing the effect of incongruity , the dream and the reality ; and this simple girl's agonies , whether of love ...
... effect of his three bare common words is terrible . It is among the highest triumphs of genius to blend , without producing the effect of incongruity , the dream and the reality ; and this simple girl's agonies , whether of love ...
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Página 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 90 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Página 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Página 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Página 249 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Página 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Página 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Página 241 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.