The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Svazek 33A. Constable, 1820 |
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... whole accompanied with Notes and Observations , Critical and Illustrative . By Thomas Busby , Mus . Doc . 2. The Lives of Haydn and Mozart . In a Series of Letters . Translated from the French of L. H. C. Bombert . 3. Remarks on the ...
... whole accompanied with Notes and Observations , Critical and Illustrative . By Thomas Busby , Mus . Doc . 2. The Lives of Haydn and Mozart . In a Series of Letters . Translated from the French of L. H. C. Bombert . 3. Remarks on the ...
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... whole part of George Robertson , or Stanton , is extravagant and unpleasing . The final catastro- phe , too , is needlessly improbable and startling ; and both Sad- dletrees and Davie Deans become at last rather tedious and unreasonable ...
... whole part of George Robertson , or Stanton , is extravagant and unpleasing . The final catastro- phe , too , is needlessly improbable and startling ; and both Sad- dletrees and Davie Deans become at last rather tedious and unreasonable ...
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... whole part is copied with considerable bold- ness and success from the specimens of that character in Shake- speare , and especially , we think , from the kind - hearted one who attended on the wanderings of the unhappy Lear , is ...
... whole part is copied with considerable bold- ness and success from the specimens of that character in Shake- speare , and especially , we think , from the kind - hearted one who attended on the wanderings of the unhappy Lear , is ...
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... whole vassalage are engaged in the festivities that constituted his funeral rites , —and , by the powerful intercession of his royal patron , is at last re- conciled to his father , whose consent to his alliance with Rowe , na might now ...
... whole vassalage are engaged in the festivities that constituted his funeral rites , —and , by the powerful intercession of his royal patron , is at last re- conciled to his father , whose consent to his alliance with Rowe , na might now ...
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... whole assembly . ' III . 182-187 . - -- " " 99 99 The gage of battle is now delivered to the Templar himself , as the proper avenger of his own wrongs and that of the Order ; and the third day is appointed for the combat . Rebecca ...
... whole assembly . ' III . 182-187 . - -- " " 99 99 The gage of battle is now delivered to the Templar himself , as the proper avenger of his own wrongs and that of the Order ; and the third day is appointed for the combat . Rebecca ...
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Strana 69 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Strana 68 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Strana 133 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Strana 16 - Thus exhorted Hubert resumed his place, and not neglecting the caution which he had received from his adversary, he made the necessary allowance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target. " A Hubert! a Hubert!" shouted the populace, more interested in a known person than in a stranger. " In the clout! — in the clout! — a Hubert forever!" " Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley," said the Prince, with...
Strana 15 - One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Of twentyfour arrows shot in succession, ten were fixed in the target, and the others ranged so near it that, considering the distance of the mark, it was accounted good archery. Of the ten shafts which hit the target, two within the inner ring were shot by Hubert, a forester in the service of Malvoisin, who was accordingly pronounced victorious. "Now, Locksley...
Strana 28 - They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back!
Strana 333 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Strana 27 - A singular novelty,' muttered the knight, ' to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed! Seest thou who they be that act as leaders ?' 'A knight, clad in sable armour, is the most conspicuous,' said the Jewess; ' he alone is armed from head to heel, and seems to assume the direction of all around him.