The St. Peterburg English Review, Volume 3S. Warrand 1842 |
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... turn . There was no one nearer it than myself . I rubbed my eyes , —and looked with the most pierc- ing scrutiny of gaze . It moved again . There was perfect silence all around . I sunk back in my chair ; but my eyes could not remove ...
... turn . There was no one nearer it than myself . I rubbed my eyes , —and looked with the most pierc- ing scrutiny of gaze . It moved again . There was perfect silence all around . I sunk back in my chair ; but my eyes could not remove ...
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... turn affairs had taken , scrambled up as much booty as they could secure , and declaring that the game was up ... turning King's evidence . I heard the hasty closing of the hall door , and I felt as if in the departure of these ...
... turn affairs had taken , scrambled up as much booty as they could secure , and declaring that the game was up ... turning King's evidence . I heard the hasty closing of the hall door , and I felt as if in the departure of these ...
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... turn , or point . When Homer terms the morn rosy - fingered , ' we re- cognize at once the true poetical imagination , remodelling , ' in our critic's language , the original idea , and impregnating it with something extraneous . ' In ...
... turn , or point . When Homer terms the morn rosy - fingered , ' we re- cognize at once the true poetical imagination , remodelling , ' in our critic's language , the original idea , and impregnating it with something extraneous . ' In ...
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... turn , ' we discover a clever effort of wit , associating the original idea with a thing to which , in some view of another , it " bears a resemblance . ' But to cite this as an instance of Fancy , and at the same time to call such ...
... turn , ' we discover a clever effort of wit , associating the original idea with a thing to which , in some view of another , it " bears a resemblance . ' But to cite this as an instance of Fancy , and at the same time to call such ...
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... turn shows plainly the absence of imagination . Pope was not indeed destitute of that faculty , as modern criticasters sometimes affirm . It sparkles here and there , though intermixed with much of a polished but infe- rior metal , in ...
... turn shows plainly the absence of imagination . Pope was not indeed destitute of that faculty , as modern criticasters sometimes affirm . It sparkles here and there , though intermixed with much of a polished but infe- rior metal , in ...
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Página 83 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Página 231 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Página 92 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Página 118 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 174 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Página 30 - But, gracious God, how well dost Thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe Thee thus concealed, And search no farther than Thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom Thou hast promised never to forsake...
Página 37 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Página 27 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Página 373 - Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul...
Página 27 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar...