The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Band 3Wiley and Halsted, 1821 |
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... favour- able change taking place , enabled the ship , which had previously been at a great distance , to join the boats at 8 P. M. They succeded in taking one of the lines to the ship , which was fast to the fish , with a view of ...
... favour- able change taking place , enabled the ship , which had previously been at a great distance , to join the boats at 8 P. M. They succeded in taking one of the lines to the ship , which was fast to the fish , with a view of ...
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... favour needed no second solicitation , the boat approached the man , and he was assisted into it . The fish being again loose and out of possession , the captain instantly struck his harpoon into it , hoisted his flag , and claimed his ...
... favour needed no second solicitation , the boat approached the man , and he was assisted into it . The fish being again loose and out of possession , the captain instantly struck his harpoon into it , hoisted his flag , and claimed his ...
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... favour , we might think the " knight " intended a rebuke to the secretary , for his parliamentary statements concerning our frigates during the late war . Mr. Scoresby is very confident of the national advantages to be derived from the ...
... favour , we might think the " knight " intended a rebuke to the secretary , for his parliamentary statements concerning our frigates during the late war . Mr. Scoresby is very confident of the national advantages to be derived from the ...
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... favour of its value . When we consider the pursuits in which their author has been reared , these vo- lumes are extremely creditable to his acquirements . He ap- pears to be an observant man , and an expert and scientific sea- man ...
... favour of its value . When we consider the pursuits in which their author has been reared , these vo- lumes are extremely creditable to his acquirements . He ap- pears to be an observant man , and an expert and scientific sea- man ...
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... favour is explained in the first page . Mr. Rodney , it appears , about four years previous , then an " utter stranger " to Mr. Phillips , wrote him a letter of encouragement , to " cheer his literary efforts . " The modesty of Mr ...
... favour is explained in the first page . Mr. Rodney , it appears , about four years previous , then an " utter stranger " to Mr. Phillips , wrote him a letter of encouragement , to " cheer his literary efforts . " The modesty of Mr ...
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Seite 98 - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon...
Seite 483 - That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world...
Seite 98 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now ; Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth ; LXXXVI.
Seite 28 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Seite 59 - And therefore, except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice, until thou find that time hath decayed thy natural heat, and the sooner thou beginnest to help nature, the sooner she will forsake thee, and trust altogether to art...
Seite 414 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor or image unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Seite 57 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Seite 191 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Seite 94 - The truth is, that in these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.
Seite 50 - I know not Which is best, to see you dead, or part with you. — Farewell, boy: Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding To know thy misery; for all our wit And reading brings us to a truer sense Of sorrow.