The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1812 - English literature |
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... live in the interior of the country , resort to the coast in the fishing season , when they carry home , in exchange for their tallow and skins , the dried heads of the cod fish , and such of the fish themselves as are injured by the ...
... live in the interior of the country , resort to the coast in the fishing season , when they carry home , in exchange for their tallow and skins , the dried heads of the cod fish , and such of the fish themselves as are injured by the ...
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... live cows and some sheep . The female part of his family were chiefly occupied in knitting , in making butter and sour whey , which constitute almost their sole food , except in winter , when the severity of the weather and the want of ...
... live cows and some sheep . The female part of his family were chiefly occupied in knitting , in making butter and sour whey , which constitute almost their sole food , except in winter , when the severity of the weather and the want of ...
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... lives of physicians would soon surpass in size and in number those of the saints and martyrs even of the Romish pale . We shall now notice the principal events of Dr. Bed- does's life , without interweaving the narrative with much of Dr ...
... lives of physicians would soon surpass in size and in number those of the saints and martyrs even of the Romish pale . We shall now notice the principal events of Dr. Bed- does's life , without interweaving the narrative with much of Dr ...
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... lives , which they wish to be read , and to be read at once with instruction and delight , should scrupulously avoid all exuberance of panegyric . It is very difficult to confine an appetite for eulogy within the bounds of truth . But ...
... lives , which they wish to be read , and to be read at once with instruction and delight , should scrupulously avoid all exuberance of panegyric . It is very difficult to confine an appetite for eulogy within the bounds of truth . But ...
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... live a pattern of conjugal feli- city to all the country round about . Amongst the characters which Mr. Card has attempted to pourtray , we think , that he has been most happy in that of the mitre - hunting parson , Dr. Glebmore , who ...
... live a pattern of conjugal feli- city to all the country round about . Amongst the characters which Mr. Card has attempted to pourtray , we think , that he has been most happy in that of the mitre - hunting parson , Dr. Glebmore , who ...
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Page 555 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Page 200 - I believe them true : They argue no corrupted mind In him : the fault is in mankind. This maxim, more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast : " In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends ; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Page 555 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 330 - To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
Page 272 - Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature; wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day.
Page 337 - The doctor rose up, and Kinyeancleugh sat down before his bed. About eleven o'clock, he gave a deep sigh, and said, " Now it is come." Bannatyne immediately drew near, and desired him to think upon those comfortable promises of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which he had so often declared to others ; and, perceiving that he was speechless, requested him to give them a sign that he heard them, and died in peace. Upon this he lifted up one of his hands, and, sighing twice, expired without a struggle...
Page 383 - If I possess any talent, it is that of darkening the gloomy, and of deepening the .sad; of painting life in extremes, and representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of the unlawful and the unhallowed.
Page 549 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Page 327 - the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Rochester, Ely, St. David's, Lincoln, and Bath, were sincerely bent on advancing the purity of doctrine, agreeing IN ALL THINGS with the Helvetic churches,
Page 452 - that we were ready to make all that were consistent with honesty and conscience ;' but many things might have been said upon that subject, which I did not then think proper to mention. ' However,' said I,