The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 27Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1799 - Books |
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... language is , the melodious cave * . Vol . ii . P. 49 . ' More than one half [ of ] the circumference of the ifle is occupied by very handfome colonades , which are completely bare on the fide next the fea . They reft in general on a ...
... language is , the melodious cave * . Vol . ii . P. 49 . ' More than one half [ of ] the circumference of the ifle is occupied by very handfome colonades , which are completely bare on the fide next the fea . They reft in general on a ...
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... language is faid to re- femble the Erfe . The defcription of Edinburgh , and of its celebrated inha- bitants , offers nothing new . Many of thofe who are celebrated have been long fince numbered with the dead ; and we can only recount ...
... language is faid to re- femble the Erfe . The defcription of Edinburgh , and of its celebrated inha- bitants , offers nothing new . Many of thofe who are celebrated have been long fince numbered with the dead ; and we can only recount ...
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Tobias Smollett. their original languages . In English , I am affured he is not lefs converfant . Though a catholic , he is by no means a bigot ; and if we try him by the ordinary standard of princes , he certainly oc cupies a place much ...
Tobias Smollett. their original languages . In English , I am affured he is not lefs converfant . Though a catholic , he is by no means a bigot ; and if we try him by the ordinary standard of princes , he certainly oc cupies a place much ...
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... language fometimes uncouth , but abounding with fuch beauties as it is rarely our good fortune to discover . I fing the fates of Gebir ! how he dwelt Among those mountain - caverns , which retain His labours yet , vaft halls , and ...
... language fometimes uncouth , but abounding with fuch beauties as it is rarely our good fortune to discover . I fing the fates of Gebir ! how he dwelt Among those mountain - caverns , which retain His labours yet , vaft halls , and ...
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... language is frequently deficient in perfpicuity . These are the faults of Gebir . Of its beauties , our readers must already be fenfible . They are of the first order ; every circumstance is displayed with a force and ac- curacy which ...
... language is frequently deficient in perfpicuity . These are the faults of Gebir . Of its beauties , our readers must already be fenfible . They are of the first order ; every circumstance is displayed with a force and ac- curacy which ...
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