Analectic Magazine: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British Review, Volumen 12James Maxwell, 1818 |
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... writer adopts without qualification , has been strenuously combated , and is pretty generally admitted to be too broad . It is hazarding much to assert , as our author does , that , in warm countries the penal code ought to be more ...
... writer adopts without qualification , has been strenuously combated , and is pretty generally admitted to be too broad . It is hazarding much to assert , as our author does , that , in warm countries the penal code ought to be more ...
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... writer calls the redoubtable science of poisons - la redoubtable science des poisons - is still openly profess- ed . Under all circumstances then , and admitting even that the li- centiousness of the Parisian society is , though more ...
... writer calls the redoubtable science of poisons - la redoubtable science des poisons - is still openly profess- ed . Under all circumstances then , and admitting even that the li- centiousness of the Parisian society is , though more ...
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... writers , Metastasio , Goldoni , and Alfieri . It was ex- ceedingly difficult to say any thing new on these hackneyed sub- jects , and it is a great deal to have invested them with any de- gree of fresh attraction . We pass over , too ...
... writers , Metastasio , Goldoni , and Alfieri . It was ex- ceedingly difficult to say any thing new on these hackneyed sub- jects , and it is a great deal to have invested them with any de- gree of fresh attraction . We pass over , too ...
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... writer observes , the Roman ladies are more indebted to nature than to man . Their general style of beauty is large like the Juno , and their forms are perfect as to proportion . Animation of feature , dignity of ges- ture , a language ...
... writer observes , the Roman ladies are more indebted to nature than to man . Their general style of beauty is large like the Juno , and their forms are perfect as to proportion . Animation of feature , dignity of ges- ture , a language ...
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... writers , has represented them as little better than cannibals , while the more amiable enthusiasts have appropriated the sentiments which they have derived from poetic descriptions of the chivalrous age of modern Europe , and the ...
... writers , has represented them as little better than cannibals , while the more amiable enthusiasts have appropriated the sentiments which they have derived from poetic descriptions of the chivalrous age of modern Europe , and the ...
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Página 81 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 166 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 349 - Cataraguy to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions ; the said commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, of the north-westernmost head of Connecticut river, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper.
Página 186 - He look'd, and saw a sable Sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies: All sudden, Gorgons hiss, and Dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and Giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heav'n descends, and dance on Earth, Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide Conflagration swallows all.
Página 349 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Página 165 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 107 - England! with all thy faults I love thee still.' I said at Calais, and have not forgot it; I like to speak and lucubrate my fill; I like the government (but that is not it); I like the freedom of the press and quill; I like the Habeas Corpus (when we've got it); I like a parliamentary debate, Particularly when 'tis not too late...
Página 402 - Should peace arrive after another campaign or two, and afford us a little leisure, I should be happy to see your Excellency in Europe, and to accompany you, if my age and strength would permit, in visiting some of its ancient and most famous kingdoms. You would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have...