The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1797 |
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... style and talent for narration , we shall insert his account of the tragical death of James I. because it is entirely drawn from a contemporary manuscript , hitherto unknown to our historians : • Sir Robert Graham uncle of the earl of ...
... style and talent for narration , we shall insert his account of the tragical death of James I. because it is entirely drawn from a contemporary manuscript , hitherto unknown to our historians : • Sir Robert Graham uncle of the earl of ...
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... style has more copiousness and more fluency : but some advances still remain to be made in respect of purity , perspicuity , elegance , and energy . His use of the prepositions is sometimes faulty . Thus , in speaking of the Duke of ...
... style has more copiousness and more fluency : but some advances still remain to be made in respect of purity , perspicuity , elegance , and energy . His use of the prepositions is sometimes faulty . Thus , in speaking of the Duke of ...
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... style of this volume , though unequal , we do not censure as remarkably defective ; on the whole , it is suitable to the sub- ject , and not unpleasant ; a few inaccuracies may be attributed to the press , as , perhaps , when it is said ...
... style of this volume , though unequal , we do not censure as remarkably defective ; on the whole , it is suitable to the sub- ject , and not unpleasant ; a few inaccuracies may be attributed to the press , as , perhaps , when it is said ...
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... style best adapted to those popular narrations properly termed ballads ; which , either being really or imitating the first efforts of poetry in a rude age , when chiefly distinguished by its simple force of expression , and by the ...
... style best adapted to those popular narrations properly termed ballads ; which , either being really or imitating the first efforts of poetry in a rude age , when chiefly distinguished by its simple force of expression , and by the ...
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... style and mode of versification are in a more polished strain than those of William and Helen , yet generally free from affectation or incongruous finery . Our readers may judge from the following specimen : Fast , fast Earl Walter ...
... style and mode of versification are in a more polished strain than those of William and Helen , yet generally free from affectation or incongruous finery . Our readers may judge from the following specimen : Fast , fast Earl Walter ...
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Page 435 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 81 - An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire," — this would doubtless have been noble writing.
Page 107 - I've let lodgings ten years ; I'ma baker to boot ; In airing your sheets, sir, my wife is no sloven ; And your bed is immediately over my oven." " The oven ! " says Will. Says the host, " Why this passion ? In that excellent bed died three people of fashion. Why so crusty, good sir...
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Page 138 - His face, for an old man, was one of the finest we have seen. A clear, smooth forehead ; an aquiline nose ; an eye, the brightest and most piercing that can be conceived ; and a freshness of complexion, scarcely ever to be found at his years ; and, impressive of the most perfect health, conspired to render him a venerable and interesting figure.
Page 36 - A heedless wretch has cross'd the way ; He gasps, the thundering hoofs below ; — But, live who can, or die who may, Still, " Forward, forward !
Page 107 - I've enough of them there without paying for drugs ! ' Will kicked out the doctor ; but when ill indeed, e'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed ; so, calling his host, he said : ' Sir, do you know, I'm the fat single gentleman six months ago ? Look'e, landlord, I think...
Page 452 - So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Page 394 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Page 170 - Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly. Being a plan for meliorating the condition of man. By creating in every nation, a national fund, to pay...