The Monthly Review; or, Litereary Journal: From January to June, inclusive.1782 |
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... perhaps he will avail himself of Mr. Pope's plea for " " great wits : " and may think himself at liberty to start from vulgar rules . " Colley Cibber thought the fame ; but he used this pri- vilege with more address . VOL . LXVI , 6 B ...
... perhaps he will avail himself of Mr. Pope's plea for " " great wits : " and may think himself at liberty to start from vulgar rules . " Colley Cibber thought the fame ; but he used this pri- vilege with more address . VOL . LXVI , 6 B ...
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... perhaps the re - invention , of the Eolian harp , by the late Mr. Otwald . To account for the production of the different tones in this aerial mufic , he fuppofes that air , like light , confifts of heterogeneous parts differently re ...
... perhaps the re - invention , of the Eolian harp , by the late Mr. Otwald . To account for the production of the different tones in this aerial mufic , he fuppofes that air , like light , confifts of heterogeneous parts differently re ...
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... perhaps , be imagined , as indeed Mr. Montefquieu has done , that this character of the people of Africa was exaggerated by the Roman hiftorians , from the hereditary antipathy between that people and the Carthaginians ; and that it was ...
... perhaps , be imagined , as indeed Mr. Montefquieu has done , that this character of the people of Africa was exaggerated by the Roman hiftorians , from the hereditary antipathy between that people and the Carthaginians ; and that it was ...
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... Perhaps the ftately pride and haughtiness , fo effential to the Spanish character , may have been of fervice in preferving them from this fraudulent difpofition , which is always connected with meannefs and cowardice . Perhaps this ...
... Perhaps the ftately pride and haughtiness , fo effential to the Spanish character , may have been of fervice in preferving them from this fraudulent difpofition , which is always connected with meannefs and cowardice . Perhaps this ...
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... perhaps , be one caufe why the Turks are fo referved and filent , and perhaps of the fame qualities of the Spaniards , who , it is faid , drink very little wine . The drinking of water is alfo , in fome refpects , favourable to morality ...
... perhaps , be one caufe why the Turks are fo referved and filent , and perhaps of the fame qualities of the Spaniards , who , it is faid , drink very little wine . The drinking of water is alfo , in fome refpects , favourable to morality ...
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Página 105 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
Página 118 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Página 403 - ... the odoriferous furrow exhilarates his spirits, and seems to do the child a great deal of good, for he looks more blooming since I have adopted that practice; can more pleasure, more dignity be added to that primary occupation? The father thus ploughing with his child, and to feed his family, is inferior only to the emperor of China ploughing as an example to his kingdom.
Página 371 - Thus the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great.
Página 555 - NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Página 271 - Surely it is no narrow and niggardly encomium to say he is the great Poet of Reason, the first of ethical authors in verse. And this species of writing is, after all, the surest road to an extensive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men than the higher flights of more genuine poetry.
Página 103 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Página 116 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 271 - Chesterfield on one hand, and of Walpole on the other, failed not to make a poem bought up and talked of. And it cannot be doubted, that the Odes of Horace which celebrated, and the satires which ridiculed, well-known and real characters at Rome, were more eagerly read, and more frequently cited, than the jEneid and the Georgic of Virgil.
Página 114 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Litchfield, and widow of Colonel Lee. His connexion with this lady arose from his father's acquaintance, already mentioned, with Lady Anne Wharton, who was coheiress of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordshire.