The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 6A. Constable, 1805 |
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... most interefting paffages of the poem are thofe in which he drops the business of his story to moralife , and apply to his own fituation the images and reflections it has fuggefted . After concluding one canto with an account of the ...
... most interefting paffages of the poem are thofe in which he drops the business of his story to moralife , and apply to his own fituation the images and reflections it has fuggefted . After concluding one canto with an account of the ...
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... most part too rude and naked to give complete fatisfaction . The execution is always extremely unequal ; and though the writ- er fometimes touches upon the appropriate feeling with great ef- fect and felicity , ftill this appears to be ...
... most part too rude and naked to give complete fatisfaction . The execution is always extremely unequal ; and though the writ- er fometimes touches upon the appropriate feeling with great ef- fect and felicity , ftill this appears to be ...
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... most conclufive and the most obvious , viz . the multiplicity of the rings , and the existence of the dark intervals . If common prifmatic re- fraction could produce one image at all refembling a coloured ring in fize or pofition ...
... most conclufive and the most obvious , viz . the multiplicity of the rings , and the existence of the dark intervals . If common prifmatic re- fraction could produce one image at all refembling a coloured ring in fize or pofition ...
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... most valuable portion of this chapter is the inquiry in- to the manner in which bodies tranfmit light , and the circumftan- ces that attend this operation . In order to obferve thefe , our author filled five veffels with equal parts of ...
... most valuable portion of this chapter is the inquiry in- to the manner in which bodies tranfmit light , and the circumftan- ces that attend this operation . In order to obferve thefe , our author filled five veffels with equal parts of ...
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... most sacred law of nature . It is evidently the moft happy and most important dif- covery that has ever been made in this fcience ; unfolding to us at once the general law which all cafes of equilibrium obey , and difplaying the genuine ...
... most sacred law of nature . It is evidently the moft happy and most important dif- covery that has ever been made in this fcience ; unfolding to us at once the general law which all cafes of equilibrium obey , and difplaying the genuine ...
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Page 15 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle.
Page 15 - Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. " The blackening wave is edged with white : To inch* and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh.
Page 15 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St Clair.
Page 11 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 13 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced. Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Page 483 - Formed upon a more enlarged plan of arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers. COMPREHENDING THE VARIOUS ARTICLES OF THAT...
Page 5 - Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 107 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Page 429 - You have a just and laudable zeal for the credit of these poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it.
Page 140 - ... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person.