The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 12A. Constable, 1808 |
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... measure , drink one cup of wine . There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far , That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar . " The bride kiffed the goblet ; the knight took it up , He quaffed off the wine , and he threw down ...
... measure , drink one cup of wine . There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far , That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar . " The bride kiffed the goblet ; the knight took it up , He quaffed off the wine , and he threw down ...
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... measure as the fung ; And , preffing clofer , and more near , He whispered praises in her ear . In loud applause the courtiers vied ; And ladies winked , and fpoke afide . The witching dame to Marmion threw A glance , where feemed to ...
... measure as the fung ; And , preffing clofer , and more near , He whispered praises in her ear . In loud applause the courtiers vied ; And ladies winked , and fpoke afide . The witching dame to Marmion threw A glance , where feemed to ...
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... measures . More definite than blank verse , it admits both of simplicity and magnificence of sound and language . Without the terseness of unvaried rhyme , a measure unfitted to long narration , it is sufficiently uniform to please the ...
... measures . More definite than blank verse , it admits both of simplicity and magnificence of sound and language . Without the terseness of unvaried rhyme , a measure unfitted to long narration , it is sufficiently uniform to please the ...
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... measure is such as to occasion more restraint in overcoming it than effect when it is overcome , that measure may be called a shackle upon genius . But where so much effect is produced , the difficulty that is over- come becomes a ...
... measure is such as to occasion more restraint in overcoming it than effect when it is overcome , that measure may be called a shackle upon genius . But where so much effect is produced , the difficulty that is over- come becomes a ...
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... measured by no mean standard . What is good in his poetical character , is greatly good ; so that , to match one acknowledged quality , that which we bring to prove his uniting with it another great quality , should be striking in- deed ...
... measured by no mean standard . What is good in his poetical character , is greatly good ; so that , to match one acknowledged quality , that which we bring to prove his uniting with it another great quality , should be striking in- deed ...
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Page 450 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,— instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 443 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 444 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Page 18 - Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word.) " O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
Page 136 - Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye...
Page 355 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 11 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 131 - ... subject: but, instead of new images of tenderness, or delicate representation of intelligible feelings, he has contrived to tell us nothing whatever of the unfortunate fair one, but that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries
Page 134 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely...
Page 18 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.