Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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... tion , that the person who professes himself most incredu- lous on the subject of marvellous stories , often ends his remarks by indulging the company with some well - attested anecdote , which it is difficult or impossible to account ...
... tion , that the person who professes himself most incredu- lous on the subject of marvellous stories , often ends his remarks by indulging the company with some well - attested anecdote , which it is difficult or impossible to account ...
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... literary subjects , as well as the fields of the husbandman , may , when they seem most worn out and efféte , be renewed and again brought into successful cultiva tion by a new course of management . The wit HOFFMANN'S NOVELS . 15.
... literary subjects , as well as the fields of the husbandman , may , when they seem most worn out and efféte , be renewed and again brought into successful cultiva tion by a new course of management . The wit HOFFMANN'S NOVELS . 15.
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Walter Scott. tion by a new course of management . The wit of Count Hamilton , like manure applied to an exhausted field , ren- dered the Eastern tale more piquant , if not more edifying , than it was before . Much was written in ...
Walter Scott. tion by a new course of management . The wit of Count Hamilton , like manure applied to an exhausted field , ren- dered the Eastern tale more piquant , if not more edifying , than it was before . Much was written in ...
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... tion , which has no restraint save that which it may ulti- mately find in the exhausted imagination of the author . This style bears the same proportion to the more regular romance , whether ludicrous or serious , which farce , or ...
... tion , which has no restraint save that which it may ulti- mately find in the exhausted imagination of the author . This style bears the same proportion to the more regular romance , whether ludicrous or serious , which farce , or ...
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Walter Scott. will scarce tolerate it in translations . The only composi- tion which approaches to it is the powerful romance of Frankenstein , and there , although the formation of a think- ing and sentient being by scientific skill is ...
Walter Scott. will scarce tolerate it in translations . The only composi- tion which approaches to it is the powerful romance of Frankenstein , and there , although the formation of a think- ing and sentient being by scientific skill is ...
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Pàgina 13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Pàgina 12 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Pàgina 45 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Pàgina 31 - When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great...
Pàgina 412 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Pàgina 204 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Pàgina 12 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pàgina 12 - ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb: Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree.
Pàgina 13 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pàgina 157 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.