The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 60Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1785 - Books |
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... Some Obfervations on the Militia , ibid . The Oriental Chronicles of the Times , ibid . The Claims of the British Seamen to a more equal Distribution of Prize - Money , ibid . Hiftory of the Westminster Election , 310 A Fragment of the ...
... Some Obfervations on the Militia , ibid . The Oriental Chronicles of the Times , ibid . The Claims of the British Seamen to a more equal Distribution of Prize - Money , ibid . Hiftory of the Westminster Election , 310 A Fragment of the ...
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... some of thefe , is evident ; and it is equally fo , that we know of their having furnished more trifling fable than real science to Greece . In fact , their grandeur was only a display of vaft maffes , without defign or proportion ; and ...
... some of thefe , is evident ; and it is equally fo , that we know of their having furnished more trifling fable than real science to Greece . In fact , their grandeur was only a display of vaft maffes , without defign or proportion ; and ...
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... Some of the more primitive of thefe airs appear to be only a fhort imperfect chaunt , or kind of recitative ; having little regularity in the measure ; and to which , perhaps , they owe their charm ; of a grave , flow , and deeply melan ...
... Some of the more primitive of thefe airs appear to be only a fhort imperfect chaunt , or kind of recitative ; having little regularity in the measure ; and to which , perhaps , they owe their charm ; of a grave , flow , and deeply melan ...
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... some additions from other authors . After this extended catalogue , the rest of the fubject is ex- plained in detached articles . Thofe on timber , hedges , and woodlands , are new and valuable . Those on grounds are new in form ; the ...
... some additions from other authors . After this extended catalogue , the rest of the fubject is ex- plained in detached articles . Thofe on timber , hedges , and woodlands , are new and valuable . Those on grounds are new in form ; the ...
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... some addition or alter- ation is almost always wanted . Every man who has made his obfervations upon natural fcenery , knows that the misletoe of the oak occurs almost as often as a perfect natural landscape ; and to attempt to make up ...
... some addition or alter- ation is almost always wanted . Every man who has made his obfervations upon natural fcenery , knows that the misletoe of the oak occurs almost as often as a perfect natural landscape ; and to attempt to make up ...
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Page 132 - 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 unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made...
Page 433 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 108 - 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.
Page 242 - Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick, And darkening and enlightening, as the leaves Play wanton, every moment, every spot.
Page 243 - 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.
Page 350 - Our artillery, at this period, must have caused dreadful havoc amongst them. An indistinct clamour, with lamentable cries and groans, proceeded (during the short intervals of cessation) from all quarters; and, a little before midnight, a wreck floated in...
Page 244 - 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...
Page 70 - Russell moved the House of Commons for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales.
Page 45 - Because AB is equal to DE, and AC to DG, the two sides BA, AC are equal to the two ED, DG, each to each, and the angle BAC is equal to the angle EDG, therefore the base BC is equal (4.
Page 12 - ... fan, resembling an electric brush issuing from a lucid point ; others of the cometic shape, with a seeming nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere : a different sort again, contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful inexplicable phenomenon about Orionis ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars.