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To confine ourselves to the latter: it is a language so harmonious in itself, and
possessed of so exquisite a prosody, that every thing maybe simply related in its
verse with dignity and effect ;whereas the comparative poverty of sounds in our
own ...
To confine ourselves to the latter: it is a language so harmonious in itself, and
possessed of so exquisite a prosody, that every thing maybe simply related in its
verse with dignity and effect ;whereas the comparative poverty of sounds in our
own ...
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... the resorting to some equivalent , which appears to convey the exact sense of
the author , without observing the effect of that equivalent upon other parts of the
text , under translation ; a risk almost as perilous in its ultimate , though not VOL .
... the resorting to some equivalent , which appears to convey the exact sense of
the author , without observing the effect of that equivalent upon other parts of the
text , under translation ; a risk almost as perilous in its ultimate , though not VOL .
Page 139
The omission we have noticed is , moreover , attended with a disadvantageous
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 ...
The omission we have noticed is , moreover , attended with a disadvantageous
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 ...
Page 413
Such , indeed , was the effect of the whole occurrence , that for perhaps half a
minute after not a shot was fired on either side . Both parties stood still to gaze
upon the havoc which had been produced ! in so much , that a whisper might
have ...
Such , indeed , was the effect of the whole occurrence , that for perhaps half a
minute after not a shot was fired on either side . Both parties stood still to gaze
upon the havoc which had been produced ! in so much , that a whisper might
have ...
Page 479
It leaves the impression , not uncommon in works of the highest cast of genius , of
bordering on the defects and the vices , which lead to certain failure . Its effect
was heightened by his great personal influence , by the unspotted integrity of his
...
It leaves the impression , not uncommon in works of the highest cast of genius , of
bordering on the defects and the vices , which lead to certain failure . Its effect
was heightened by his great personal influence , by the unspotted integrity of his
...
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Page 156 - 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!
Page 92 - 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...
Page 356 - 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...
Page 139 - 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.
Page 250 - 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,...
Page 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...
Page 219 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 233 - 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.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 34 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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