The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen 84Archibald Constable and Company, 1819 |
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... reader in a thousand , to whom their verses give pleasure or consolation , and that reader may be a Mrs Brunton . This , we should think , is sufficient encouragement : and could a greater compliment be paid to an anonymous poet , than ...
... reader in a thousand , to whom their verses give pleasure or consolation , and that reader may be a Mrs Brunton . This , we should think , is sufficient encouragement : and could a greater compliment be paid to an anonymous poet , than ...
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... readers of a great feast by giving them any more broken mor- sels . We are sure that no one fond of such inquiries will begin the Essay on Dew , without going on delighted to the end . We shall now give a short account of Dr Wells's ...
... readers of a great feast by giving them any more broken mor- sels . We are sure that no one fond of such inquiries will begin the Essay on Dew , without going on delighted to the end . We shall now give a short account of Dr Wells's ...
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... readers would have liked better if they had contained more wonders of the species , which we shall now briefly lay before them , as a finale to our very abstract of its contents . meagre Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind ...
... readers would have liked better if they had contained more wonders of the species , which we shall now briefly lay before them , as a finale to our very abstract of its contents . meagre Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind ...
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... readers some quotations from the first of these poets , whose late work we have un- accountably passed over ; and we hope yet to do so . We owe likewise an amende honorable to Mr Wordsworth , who , by the way , has now added a Benjamin ...
... readers some quotations from the first of these poets , whose late work we have un- accountably passed over ; and we hope yet to do so . We owe likewise an amende honorable to Mr Wordsworth , who , by the way , has now added a Benjamin ...
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... reader does not like the neatness of Junius , and another objects to the extravagance of Burke ; and they are all ... reading both these authors , and in that respect think I have an advantage over both these critics . It always struck ...
... reader does not like the neatness of Junius , and another objects to the extravagance of Burke ; and they are all ... reading both these authors , and in that respect think I have an advantage over both these critics . It always struck ...
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Página 134 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 326 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Página 325 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Página 252 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Página 326 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains.
Página 328 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
Página 317 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 326 - The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
Página 326 - ... gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every one in the country round.
Página 326 - He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name ; but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.