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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... able and pleafing , The next step of Akbur is to the little island of Joanna , Zooawnee of the inhabitants , and their innocent fimplicity is highly entertaining . Like the Chinese , they are careful of , and fcrupulously exact ...
... able and pleafing , The next step of Akbur is to the little island of Joanna , Zooawnee of the inhabitants , and their innocent fimplicity is highly entertaining . Like the Chinese , they are careful of , and fcrupulously exact ...
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... able and original , ' *** The two moll general claffes into which the Highland mufic feems to divide itself , are derived from the two different inftruments which that mufic has chiefly employed : the harp and voice on the one hand ...
... able and original , ' *** The two moll general claffes into which the Highland mufic feems to divide itself , are derived from the two different inftruments which that mufic has chiefly employed : the harp and voice on the one hand ...
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... able to conceive , may excite all that rage of ardour and impetuofity which have been afcribed to them . Probably the bagpipe , or at least pipe and pulfatile inftru- ments , prevailed in the very first times in the Highlands of ...
... able to conceive , may excite all that rage of ardour and impetuofity which have been afcribed to them . Probably the bagpipe , or at least pipe and pulfatile inftru- ments , prevailed in the very first times in the Highlands of ...
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... able to enter on long difcuffions ; but if Mr. Six reflects on the folvent power of the air , or rather , to avoid disputes , on the effects of evaporation , combined with those of the heat reflected from the earth , the greater number ...
... able to enter on long difcuffions ; but if Mr. Six reflects on the folvent power of the air , or rather , to avoid disputes , on the effects of evaporation , combined with those of the heat reflected from the earth , the greater number ...
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... able to purfue , fo as to guefs pretty well at their form and direction . It is probable enough , that they may fur- round the whole apparent fphere of the heavens , not unlike the milky - way , which undoubtedly is nothing but a ...
... able to purfue , fo as to guefs pretty well at their form and direction . It is probable enough , that they may fur- round the whole apparent fphere of the heavens , not unlike the milky - way , which undoubtedly is nothing but a ...
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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.