The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 60Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... state of the winds , fuch a voyage might have been easily made by Solomon's fhips , from the Arabian Gulf . The internal inhabitants , probably the aborigines , differing from thofe of the coaft , are faid to devour their pri- foners ...
... state of the winds , fuch a voyage might have been easily made by Solomon's fhips , from the Arabian Gulf . The internal inhabitants , probably the aborigines , differing from thofe of the coaft , are faid to devour their pri- foners ...
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... state of music , as the chief of the fine arts which apply to the ear . ' He chufes to begin with modern mufic , which is the fubject of the first chapter ; the fecond is on ancient mufic ; the third contains fpeculations on mufic ; and ...
... state of music , as the chief of the fine arts which apply to the ear . ' He chufes to begin with modern mufic , which is the fubject of the first chapter ; the fecond is on ancient mufic ; the third contains fpeculations on mufic ; and ...
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... state , where , the day before , there had been no ap- pearance of any ; and it has fince appeared probable , that they fometimes come to perfection , before they rife above the furface . Art . XXXII . Experiments to investigate the ...
... state , where , the day before , there had been no ap- pearance of any ; and it has fince appeared probable , that they fometimes come to perfection , before they rife above the furface . Art . XXXII . Experiments to investigate the ...
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Tobias Smollett. affected by the state of the air , except as it was cold or hot . In the cold weather it was lefs obfervable . It is not allow- able to enter on long difcuffions ; but if Mr. Six reflects on the folvent power of the air ...
Tobias Smollett. affected by the state of the air , except as it was cold or hot . In the cold weather it was lefs obfervable . It is not allow- able to enter on long difcuffions ; but if Mr. Six reflects on the folvent power of the air ...
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... state of nature ? and who , feeing a beautiful ground adorned with wood and lawn , with water , bridges , and buildings , believes it to be a natural production ? Art feldom fails to please when executed in a masterly manner : nay , it ...
... state of nature ? and who , feeing a beautiful ground adorned with wood and lawn , with water , bridges , and buildings , believes it to be a natural production ? Art feldom fails to please when executed in a masterly manner : nay , it ...
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Página 114 - God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of his hand : And there was the hiding of his power.
Página 244 - Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick...
Página 334 - Dr. Samuel Johnson's character, religious, moral, political, and literary ; nay, his figure and manner are, I believe, more generally known than those of almost any man; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him.
Página 334 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Página 135 - The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their show They live unwooed, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made...
Página 248 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 246 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Página 246 - With odours, and as profligate as sweet ; Who sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight; when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause...
Página 245 - 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 17 - are arranged into strata, and run on to a great length ; and some of them I have been able to pursue, and to guess pretty well at their form and direction. It is probable enough that they may surround the whole starry sphere of the heavens, not unlike the Milky Way, which undoubtedly is nothing but a stratum of fixed stars.