The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 21Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1797 - Books |
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Page 17 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 51 - Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius.
Page 384 - I remember very well my own disappointment when I first visited the Vatican : but on confessing my feelings to a brother student, of whose ingenuousness I had a high opinion, he acknowledged that the works of Raphael had the same effect on him, or rather that they did not produce the effect which he expected.
Page 379 - He was clad in plain, dark silk, with a velvet bonnet, in form not much different from the bonnet of Scotch Highlanders : on the front of it was placed a large pearl, which was the only jewel or ornament he appeared to have about him.
Page 51 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 379 - ... upon their knees. The princes of his family, the tributaries and great officers of state being already arranged in their respective places in the tent, the president of the...
Page 151 - Morgan's Investigation of the Trinity of Plato, and of Philo Judaeus, and of the effects which an attachment to their writings had upon the principles and reasonings of the Fathers of the Christian Church. Revised by HA HOLDEN, LL.D. Head Master of Ipswich School, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Crown Octavo.
Page 384 - I felt my ignorance, and stood abashed. All the indigested notions of painting which I had brought with me from England, where the art was in the lowest state it had ever been in (it could not indeed be lower), were to be totally done away and eradicated from my mind. It was necessary, as it is expressed on a very solemn occasion, that I should become as a little child.
Page 37 - I was affured that the moment a lynx was brought into the houfe, all the cats difappeared, and were feen no more during that animal's abode there. The lynx bears the privation of its freedom only fo long as it is allowed to wander about the houfe; all thofe which the Baron fent to the royal menagerie having foon died of excefs of fat, •which was the cafe with that I faw there, and which alfo appeared extremely melancholy. The lynx of Abruzzo is unqueftionably the moft fwift, fubtle, and audacious...
Page 385 - I consider general copying as a delusive kind of industry ; the Student satisfies himself with the appearance of doing something ; he falls into the dangerous habit of imitating without selecting, and of labouring without any determinate object ; as it requires no effort of the mind, he sleeps over his work : and those powers of invention and composition which ought particularly to be called out, and put in action, lie torpid, and lose their energy for want of exercise.