The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 60Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... seems to feel when on holy ground , and the restraint frequently visible when his enquiries have brought him to the verge of the fanctuary . His language is clear , fimple , and unornamented ; and , in general , we think thefe ...
... seems to feel when on holy ground , and the restraint frequently visible when his enquiries have brought him to the verge of the fanctuary . His language is clear , fimple , and unornamented ; and , in general , we think thefe ...
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... seems to confider each nebula as a diftinct ftratum . ' If the eye were placed fomewhere without the ftratum , at no very great distance , the appearance of the stars within it would affume the form of one of the lefs circles of the ...
... seems to confider each nebula as a diftinct ftratum . ' If the eye were placed fomewhere without the ftratum , at no very great distance , the appearance of the stars within it would affume the form of one of the lefs circles of the ...
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... seems o have been exhausted , and every perfon must have been long fince convinced , except thofe for whom the arguments were intended , who are unfortunately too much blinded by interest and neceffity . But what is that neceffity of ...
... seems o have been exhausted , and every perfon must have been long fince convinced , except thofe for whom the arguments were intended , who are unfortunately too much blinded by interest and neceffity . But what is that neceffity of ...
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... seems to have arifen from his not trac- ing the fubject to its fource . We shall have another occafion to refume it ; and it will appear probable that , if the patri- archal fcheme is to be confidered as the first form of govern- ment ...
... seems to have arifen from his not trac- ing the fubject to its fource . We shall have another occafion to refume it ; and it will appear probable that , if the patri- archal fcheme is to be confidered as the first form of govern- ment ...
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... seem'd a shoot to rife Tender , ill - rooted in a barren earth , Yea of a mean prefentment from his birth . In him nor air nor form majeftic move Rev'rence , nor all - attractive beauty love . Defpis'd , and to rejecting fcorn a prey ...
... seem'd a shoot to rife Tender , ill - rooted in a barren earth , Yea of a mean prefentment from his birth . In him nor air nor form majeftic move Rev'rence , nor all - attractive beauty love . Defpis'd , and to rejecting fcorn a prey ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.