The Quarterly Review, Volume 25William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1821 |
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... respects they are totally and entirely distinct . Our own national drama , that , we mean , of Shakspeare and his contemporaries , is the drama of human charac- ter . The soul of man is the subject of its delineation ; the action and ...
... respects they are totally and entirely distinct . Our own national drama , that , we mean , of Shakspeare and his contemporaries , is the drama of human charac- ter . The soul of man is the subject of its delineation ; the action and ...
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... respect , though we have now and then indulged ourselves in a licence . Morandro . Why so swiftly art thou flying ? Lira . Lira . Go not , Lira , -let me still Taste what may my spirit fill With glad life , even while I'm dying . Lira ...
... respect , though we have now and then indulged ourselves in a licence . Morandro . Why so swiftly art thou flying ? Lira . Lira . Go not , Lira , -let me still Taste what may my spirit fill With glad life , even while I'm dying . Lira ...
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... readers probably are familiar with German , and we do not wish to risk a translation of what we fairly confess is , in many respects , beyond our comprehension . his autos ( pièces represented on the day of the his 20 The Spanish Drama .
... readers probably are familiar with German , and we do not wish to risk a translation of what we fairly confess is , in many respects , beyond our comprehension . his autos ( pièces represented on the day of the his 20 The Spanish Drama .
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... respect quite threw him in the shade ; but as I knew it to be the general mode of dancing in this part of Barbary , I of course applauded it . Lilla Fatma herself then thought proper to honour us with a few graceful attitudes in the ...
... respect quite threw him in the shade ; but as I knew it to be the general mode of dancing in this part of Barbary , I of course applauded it . Lilla Fatma herself then thought proper to honour us with a few graceful attitudes in the ...
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... respects inferior to the other two . It is the custom at all these towns to keep tame ostriches , for the sake of their feathers . On the 22d April the caravan left Sockna , and the same day en- tered the passes of the Soudah , or Black ...
... respects inferior to the other two . It is the custom at all these towns to keep tame ostriches , for the sake of their feathers . On the 22d April the caravan left Sockna , and the same day en- tered the passes of the Soudah , or Black ...
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Page 52 - ... he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called; and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horse's tail.
Page 54 - The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror. What was to be done? To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind? Summoning up, therefore, a show of courage, he demanded in stammering accents — "Who are you?
Page 54 - ... through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under him. He seized it by the pommel, and endeavored to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the earth, and he heard it trampled under foot by his pursuer.
Page 50 - Connecticut ; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
Page 337 - From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism ; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 49 - In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, " tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
Page 55 - Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups and in the very act of hurling his head at him.
Page 47 - Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament?
Page 55 - If I can but reach that bridge," thought Ichabod, " I am safe." Just then he heard the black steed panting and blowing close behind him ; he even fancied that he felt his hot breath. Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge ; he thundered over the resounding planks ; he gained the opposite side ; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
Page 42 - I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the sauntering gaze with which humble lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one printshop to another, caught sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions of caricature, and sometimes by the loveliness of landscape.