The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1816 - Books |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 91
Page 35
... seems indeed to have written rather for amusement than for fame , and never to have stopped to correct or improve that which he did not subject of his own accord to the test of criticism . Although his powers of fancy , therefore , were ...
... seems indeed to have written rather for amusement than for fame , and never to have stopped to correct or improve that which he did not subject of his own accord to the test of criticism . Although his powers of fancy , therefore , were ...
Page 265
... seems always to walk on stilts . What- ever be the subject , whether he is presenting a petition or deliver- ing a laboured harangue , he always speaks in the same measured tone and set manner . He dares not be familiar ; aware perhaps ...
... seems always to walk on stilts . What- ever be the subject , whether he is presenting a petition or deliver- ing a laboured harangue , he always speaks in the same measured tone and set manner . He dares not be familiar ; aware perhaps ...
Page 467
... seems to respect exclusively the eastern bank of the Nile ; and to include the rulers of Palestine , or the shepherd - kings , among Ægyp- tian dynasties . As English towns or parishes once kept at the public expence a town - bull ; so ...
... seems to respect exclusively the eastern bank of the Nile ; and to include the rulers of Palestine , or the shepherd - kings , among Ægyp- tian dynasties . As English towns or parishes once kept at the public expence a town - bull ; so ...
Contents
OF | 1 |
For the Names also of the Authors of new Dissertations | 25 |
SchoolOrator | 65 |
31 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
animals appears army Bayonne beautiful Blücher Boards body Bonaparte bones Cadiz called cause character church circumstances consequence considerable considered Cooke corps Cossacks Cotopaxi Cumana effect England English extract favour Fort Augustus France French George Frederick Cooke give Greek hand Harmonies Herodotus Highlanders honour India inhabitants insects interest intitled Inverness King knowlege labour land language larvæ less letter living Lord Lord Lovat Lovat Lycophron manner means ment Miletus mind moral muscles nation nature never object observations occasion opinion original Parisina passage passed Pelasgi person poem political possess present Prince principal produced racter readers rebels remarks respect scarcely Scotland seems shew Sir John Cope Spain species specimen success suppose thing tion town translation troops vegetable volume whole words writer