The Retrospective Review, Volumes 1-2J. R. Smith, 1853 Consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old books. |
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... brought before our eyes . Aphra Behn is especially severe on the foibles of her own sex . Her estimate of the female character is certainly not a high one , and she takes no pains to conceal it . Most of her female characters are vain ...
... brought before our eyes . Aphra Behn is especially severe on the foibles of her own sex . Her estimate of the female character is certainly not a high one , and she takes no pains to conceal it . Most of her female characters are vain ...
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... Diana and Betty . Wild . Sir , I have brought into your kind protection the richest jewel all London can afford , fair Mrs. Charlotte Gettall . Sir Tim . Bless us , she's ravishing fair ! 1852. ] 13 Mrs. Behn's Dramatic Writings .
... Diana and Betty . Wild . Sir , I have brought into your kind protection the richest jewel all London can afford , fair Mrs. Charlotte Gettall . Sir Tim . Bless us , she's ravishing fair ! 1852. ] 13 Mrs. Behn's Dramatic Writings .
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... brought from the east by the Indian Bacchus , and what could be a more fit accompani- ment of Bacchus than an emblem of Eros ? Bishop Berkeley himself furnishes abundant proof that the true virtues of the pine and tar were known to the ...
... brought from the east by the Indian Bacchus , and what could be a more fit accompani- ment of Bacchus than an emblem of Eros ? Bishop Berkeley himself furnishes abundant proof that the true virtues of the pine and tar were known to the ...
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... brought out of France . " After a quarrel with an insolent and surly driver— " They alighted from their wretched carriage at an inn , the air of which was as gloomy as the countenances of the English , who were regaling them- selves ...
... brought out of France . " After a quarrel with an insolent and surly driver— " They alighted from their wretched carriage at an inn , the air of which was as gloomy as the countenances of the English , who were regaling them- selves ...
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... brought on itself the evils which we hear imputed to it , then we must believe that it has always been increasing since the incoming of the Saxons , so there must have been , somewhere between the days of Victoria and Hengist , a happy ...
... brought on itself the evils which we hear imputed to it , then we must believe that it has always been increasing since the incoming of the Saxons , so there must have been , somewhere between the days of Victoria and Hengist , a happy ...
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The Retrospective Review: Consisting of Criticisms Upon, Analyses ..., Volume 1 Visualização integral - 1853 |
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Página 92 - ... before you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them, even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them...
Página 91 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Página 385 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 344 - Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
Página 161 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was пае stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude that's shed on earth Hins through the springs o
Página 48 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.
Página 118 - Son William, I am weary of the world. I would not live over my days again, if I could command them with a wish ; for the snares of life are greater than the fears of death.
Página 230 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high. The hard brands shiver on the steel, The...
Página 70 - English would wake, we might kill them all sleeping, I removed out of the way all the Guns and Hatchets : but my heart failing me, I put all things where they were again. The next day when we were to be burnt, our Master and some others spake for us, and the Evil was prevented in this place : And hereabouts we lay three Weeks together.
Página 206 - Non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei.