Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volumen 3Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... Popular Tales , she has rendered an invaluable service to the middling and lower orders of the people ; and by her novels , and by the volumes before us , has made a great and meritorious effort to promote the happiness and ...
... Popular Tales , she has rendered an invaluable service to the middling and lower orders of the people ; and by her novels , and by the volumes before us , has made a great and meritorious effort to promote the happiness and ...
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... popular of our modern poems , than with the rubbish of provincial romances . The secret of this success , we take it , is merely that the author is a man of Genius ; and that he has , not- withstanding , had virtue enough to be true to ...
... popular of our modern poems , than with the rubbish of provincial romances . The secret of this success , we take it , is merely that the author is a man of Genius ; and that he has , not- withstanding , had virtue enough to be true to ...
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... popular of these popular productions that have appeared in our times , we must rank the works to which we have just alluded ; and we do not hesitate to say , that they are well entitled to that distinction . They are indeed , in many ...
... popular of these popular productions that have appeared in our times , we must rank the works to which we have just alluded ; and we do not hesitate to say , that they are well entitled to that distinction . They are indeed , in many ...
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... popular , that the great interest of his pieces is for the most part a Moral interest - that the concern we take in his fa- | vourite characters is less on account of their adventures than of their amiableness - and that the great charm ...
... popular , that the great interest of his pieces is for the most part a Moral interest - that the concern we take in his fa- | vourite characters is less on account of their adventures than of their amiableness - and that the great charm ...
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... popular appellation of Old Mortality . " - Vol . II . p . 7-18 . The scene of the story thus strikingly introduced is laid - in Scotland of course - in those disastrous times which immediately preceded the Revolution of 1688 ; and ...
... popular appellation of Old Mortality . " - Vol . II . p . 7-18 . The scene of the story thus strikingly introduced is laid - in Scotland of course - in those disastrous times which immediately preceded the Revolution of 1688 ; and ...
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Página 689 - It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...
Página 616 - mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, "The Playhouse is in flames !" And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every...
Página 691 - ... occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians,...
Página 327 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Página 407 - God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it ; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor.
Página 585 - I am told it. But I cherish too the consolatory hope, that I shall be able to tell them that I had an old and learned friend, whom I would put above all the sweepings of their hall, who was of a different opinion; who had derived his ideas of civil liberty from the purest fountains of Athens and of Rome; who had fed the youthful vigour of his studious mind, with the theoretic knowledge of their wisest philosophers and statesmen...
Página 545 - Over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry .of a tasteless age, too long attached to prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.
Página 11 - ... and ropes for harness. The horses were worthy of the harness; wretched little dogtired creatures, that looked as if they had been driven to the last gasp, and as if they had never been rubbed down in their lives; their bones starting through their skin; one lame, the other blind; one with a raw back, the other with a galled breast...
Página 585 - I draw from the dearest and tenderest recollections of my life, from the remembrance of those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods which we have spent with those admired and respected and beloved companions who have gone before us; — over whose ashes the most precious tears of Ireland have been shed...
Página 451 - I do not by any means assent to the pictures of depravity and general worthlessness which some have drawn of the Hindoos. They are decidedly, by nature, a mild, pleasing, and intelligent race ; sober, parsimonious ; and, where an object is held out to them, most industrious and persevering.