Select Reviews of Literature, Volumen7John F. Watson, 1812 |
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... give offence , which they know will be avenged , and by main- taining such a carriage , as to deter others from offering any of- fence to them : And their property they must protect , where there are neither constables , nor watchmen ...
... give offence , which they know will be avenged , and by main- taining such a carriage , as to deter others from offering any of- fence to them : And their property they must protect , where there are neither constables , nor watchmen ...
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... give an air of dignity and refinement to the whole Highland population , is no doubt the great abundance and the lofty charac- ter of their popular poetry . We would not , upon any account , take such an occasion as the present to enter ...
... give an air of dignity and refinement to the whole Highland population , is no doubt the great abundance and the lofty charac- ter of their popular poetry . We would not , upon any account , take such an occasion as the present to enter ...
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... give the example of fortitude and resignation . This man , on other occasions , had been quite unequal to the performance of this duty ; but at this time , he immediately , on coming in , ordered music to begin , and danced the solitary ...
... give the example of fortitude and resignation . This man , on other occasions , had been quite unequal to the performance of this duty ; but at this time , he immediately , on coming in , ordered music to begin , and danced the solitary ...
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... give thanks for my deliverance from many sorrows . " I. p . 180-182 . The whole population , indeed , believe firmly in ghosts , -and most of them upon their own experience . Mrs. Grant , we sus- pect , has not had this advantage , but ...
... give thanks for my deliverance from many sorrows . " I. p . 180-182 . The whole population , indeed , believe firmly in ghosts , -and most of them upon their own experience . Mrs. Grant , we sus- pect , has not had this advantage , but ...
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... give warmth or plenty ! " I. p . 166 , 168 . We should now be preparing to take our farewell of Mrs. Grant and her Highlanders : yet we think it but fair , before we part with them , to lay before our readers an actual example of those ...
... give warmth or plenty ! " I. p . 166 , 168 . We should now be preparing to take our farewell of Mrs. Grant and her Highlanders : yet we think it but fair , before we part with them , to lay before our readers an actual example of those ...
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Página 222 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 484 - Her lover sinks — she sheds no ill-timed tear ; Her chief is slain — she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee — she checks their base career ; The foe retires — she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall?
Página 497 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing, His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the...
Página 425 - WHAT hopes, what terrors, does thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate : The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain: The myrtle crowns the happy lovers...
Página 485 - Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they loved ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed By British hands, which it had best behoved To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Página 486 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of...
Página 498 - Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. " They hear no sound ; the swell is strong ; Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock: " O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!
Página 497 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
Página 461 - Rome than here, as I should not then have the mortification of seeing with my own eyes a genius of the first rank lost to the world, himself, and his friends, as I certainly must, if you do not assume a manner of acting and thinking here, totally different from what your letters from Rome have described to me.
Página 130 - Now smile, then weep ; now pale, then crimson red. You are the powerful moon of my blood's sea, To make it ebb or flow into my face, As your looks change.