The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 16권A. Constable, 1810 |
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... talent and activity . The ends and the means of that government are alike cruel and unhallowed ; but the skill with which they are adapted to each other , the vigour with which they are pursu- ed , and the contrivance with which they ...
... talent and activity . The ends and the means of that government are alike cruel and unhallowed ; but the skill with which they are adapted to each other , the vigour with which they are pursu- ed , and the contrivance with which they ...
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... talents of the leaders , and by the general circumstances and constitution of the government , were greatly assisted in their effect upon the French people , by their inherently vain - glorious and sanguine character . La grande pensée ...
... talents of the leaders , and by the general circumstances and constitution of the government , were greatly assisted in their effect upon the French people , by their inherently vain - glorious and sanguine character . La grande pensée ...
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... bestowed such pow- er of conception and expression in giving us distinct ideas of what we must abhor to remember . If Mr Crabbe had been a person In- person of ordinary talents , we might have accounted IS April Crabbe's Borough .
... bestowed such pow- er of conception and expression in giving us distinct ideas of what we must abhor to remember . If Mr Crabbe had been a person In- person of ordinary talents , we might have accounted IS April Crabbe's Borough .
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Or Critical Journal. In- person of ordinary talents , we might have accounted for his er- ror , in some degree , by supposing , that his frequent success in treating of subjects which had been usually rejected by other poets , had at ...
Or Critical Journal. In- person of ordinary talents , we might have accounted for his er- ror , in some degree , by supposing , that his frequent success in treating of subjects which had been usually rejected by other poets , had at ...
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... talents for narration ; and that unrivalled gift in the delineation of character which is now used only for the creation of detached portraits , might be turned to admirable account in maintaining the interest , and enhancing the ...
... talents for narration ; and that unrivalled gift in the delineation of character which is now used only for the creation of detached portraits , might be turned to admirable account in maintaining the interest , and enhancing the ...
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43 페이지 - The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow., Or lie like pictures on the sand below ; With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon...
115 페이지 - It may, and must be true, that Mr. Hastings has repeatedly offended against the rights and privileges of Asiatic government, if he was the faithful deputy of a power which could not maintain itself for an hour without trampling upon both...
52 페이지 - Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food; But sleep will soon the weary soul prepare For cares to-morrow that were this day's care: For forms, for feasts, that sundry times have past, And formal feasts that will for ever last.
115 페이지 - said the jealous ruler over the desert encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventure, — " who is it that causes this river to rise in the high mountains, and to empty itself into the ocean ? Who is it that causes to blow the loud winds of winter, and that calms them again in...
117 페이지 - It is the nature of everything that is great and useful, both in the animate and inanimate world, to be wild and irregular, and we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its wanderings are sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom when it advances in its path : subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness.
49 페이지 - When Tides were neap, and, in the sultry day, Through the tall bounding Mud-banks made their way, Which on each side rose swelling, and below The dark warm Flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide...
115 페이지 - The unhappy people of India, feeble and effeminate as they are from the softness of their climate, and subdued and broken as they have been by the knavery and strength of civilization, still occasionally start up in all the vigour and intelligence of insulted nature : — to be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the...
112 페이지 - I assert, without the hazard of contradiction, that if Mr Hastings himself could have stood justified or excused in your eyes for publishing this volume in his own defence, the author, if he wrote it...
116 페이지 - ... us ; but which it unaccountably falls to my province, whether I will or no, a little to stem the torrent of, by reminding you, that you have a mighty sway in Asia which cannot be maintained by the finer sympathies of life, or the practice of its charities and affections.
115 페이지 - Gentlemen, I think I can observe that you are touched with this way of considering the subject, and I can account for it. I have not been considering it through the cold medium of books, but have been speaking of man and his nature, and of human dominion, from what I have seen of them myself amongst reluctant nations submitting to our authority. I know what they feel, and how such feelings can alone be repressed.