The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volumen 7J. Murray, 1786 |
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... producing the happiest inventions , have , for want of them , pined in obfcurity , been loft to the world , and incapable of any great atchievement ? After these and other obfervations , Dr. Barnes proceeds to chalk out the outlines of ...
... producing the happiest inventions , have , for want of them , pined in obfcurity , been loft to the world , and incapable of any great atchievement ? After these and other obfervations , Dr. Barnes proceeds to chalk out the outlines of ...
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... make us acquainted with the state of population , and the quantity of corn annually produced in thefe thefe kingdoms . The author will not be difpleafed when 6 Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchester ,
... make us acquainted with the state of population , and the quantity of corn annually produced in thefe thefe kingdoms . The author will not be difpleafed when 6 Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchester ,
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... producing these effects . We are naturally led to adopt the paffions , and , to a certain degree , to imitate the cha racter of those , to whofe company and converfation we are daily ha- bituated ; and this difpofition is fo potent ...
... producing these effects . We are naturally led to adopt the paffions , and , to a certain degree , to imitate the cha racter of those , to whofe company and converfation we are daily ha- bituated ; and this difpofition is fo potent ...
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... produced upon the mind by the furvey of a- beautiful feenery of country , are noticed by feveral of the poets , and particularly by Milton . ' The doctor proceeds to illuftrate his pofition , by an appeal to ancient and prefent , or ...
... produced upon the mind by the furvey of a- beautiful feenery of country , are noticed by feveral of the poets , and particularly by Milton . ' The doctor proceeds to illuftrate his pofition , by an appeal to ancient and prefent , or ...
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... produced , the young Etonian exerted all his ftrength , and wrung off the neck of his antagonist , without a fingle reflection on the feelings of his aunt . Orniphila , who was utterly un- affected by the wound of her nephew , fell into ...
... produced , the young Etonian exerted all his ftrength , and wrung off the neck of his antagonist , without a fingle reflection on the feelings of his aunt . Orniphila , who was utterly un- affected by the wound of her nephew , fell into ...
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The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volumen 9 Vista completa - 1787 |
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Página 402 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Página 288 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Página 253 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef...
Página 288 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Página 229 - He is a path, if any be misled ; He is a robe, if any naked be ; If any chance to hunger, he is bread ; If any be a bondman, he is free ; If any be but weak, how strong is he ! To dead men life he is, to sick men health, To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth, A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
Página 402 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Página 264 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there ; and, above all, for preventing, in the mean time, any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...
Página 450 - He was beloved by his people, who looked up to him as to a father, and obeyed his commands with alacrity. The confidence we placed in him was unremitting; our admiration of his great talents unbounded; our esteem for his good qualities affectionate and sincere.
Página 92 - ... whose smoke might be attracted and retained by our earth; or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing to issue during the summer from Hecla, in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain.
Página 87 - ... seems to be attracted from the circumambient air. Now we know that the rain, even in our hottest days, comes from a very cold region.