Contributions to the Edinburgh ReviewD. Appleton, 1864 - 762 pages |
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... readers will be found to have been consulted by this arrangement . The particular papers in each group or division , have also been placed in the order , rather of their natural dependence , or analogy to each other , than of the times ...
... readers will be found to have been consulted by this arrangement . The particular papers in each group or division , have also been placed in the order , rather of their natural dependence , or analogy to each other , than of the times ...
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... readers , however , by his original similes and metaphors , in these high- er cases , even the dullest of those readers do , in some degree , every day , for themselves ; and the beauty which is perceived , when natural objects are ...
... readers , however , by his original similes and metaphors , in these high- er cases , even the dullest of those readers do , in some degree , every day , for themselves ; and the beauty which is perceived , when natural objects are ...
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... readers to make the best apology they can . succeeding English authors , have produced a Madame de Staël thinks very ... reader would think of bringing most into no- tice , it is interesting to know what strikes an intelligent foreigner ...
... readers to make the best apology they can . succeeding English authors , have produced a Madame de Staël thinks very ... reader would think of bringing most into no- tice , it is interesting to know what strikes an intelligent foreigner ...
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... readers . As it is , we feel that we have done but scanty justice , either to our author or her subject - though we can now make no other amends , than by earnestly entreating our readers to study both of them for themselves . uly ...
... readers . As it is , we feel that we have done but scanty justice , either to our author or her subject - though we can now make no other amends , than by earnestly entreating our readers to study both of them for themselves . uly ...
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... reader . Dr. Franklin , however , is too great a man to be allowed to walk past , without some observation ; and our readers , we are persuaded , will easily forgive us , if we yield to the temptation of making a few remarks on his ...
... reader . Dr. Franklin , however , is too great a man to be allowed to walk past , without some observation ; and our readers , we are persuaded , will easily forgive us , if we yield to the temptation of making a few remarks on his ...
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Page 307 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 335 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 307 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 347 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 309 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 388 - When tides were neap, and, in the sultry day, Through the tall bounding mud-banks made their way, Which on each side rose swelling, and below The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide...
Page 358 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 308 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep, then, the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
Page 335 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo...
Page 371 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.