The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 21Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1838 - English literature |
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... representing every operation of Thugghee . According to the strict rules of the Thugs , they were never to murder any of the following classes : -A sweeper , a carrier , oil seller , washerman , goldsmith , dancing - girl , bard ; -two ...
... representing every operation of Thugghee . According to the strict rules of the Thugs , they were never to murder any of the following classes : -A sweeper , a carrier , oil seller , washerman , goldsmith , dancing - girl , bard ; -two ...
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... represent it without any of the caricature , overstrained and forced , yet ori . ginating in feebleness , which now more or less pervades all their attempts in that class of fiction . We would gladly give up all their historical ...
... represent it without any of the caricature , overstrained and forced , yet ori . ginating in feebleness , which now more or less pervades all their attempts in that class of fiction . We would gladly give up all their historical ...
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... strange work Freuch authors make when they lay the scene of their novels in this country , and undertake to represent English society , manners , and feelings . The Italian dramatists whenever they attempt the 72 Russian Novel Writing .
... strange work Freuch authors make when they lay the scene of their novels in this country , and undertake to represent English society , manners , and feelings . The Italian dramatists whenever they attempt the 72 Russian Novel Writing .
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... represent ; creatures who are neither Frenchmen nor Germans , but mere puppets , vulgar counterfeits of humanity , destitute both of physiognomy and emotion . How can it be expected that talent should either display itself or be ...
... represent ; creatures who are neither Frenchmen nor Germans , but mere puppets , vulgar counterfeits of humanity , destitute both of physiognomy and emotion . How can it be expected that talent should either display itself or be ...
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... represented him to be a young man devoid of principle , the champion of immorality in his poems , and a nobleman of insufferably bad ton ( ! ) Thus was he judged and spoken of in London society , which , for whatever poetic feeling it ...
... represented him to be a young man devoid of principle , the champion of immorality in his poems , and a nobleman of insufferably bad ton ( ! ) Thus was he judged and spoken of in London society , which , for whatever poetic feeling it ...
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Page 426 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 427 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 427 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, aloue.
Page 427 - Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 428 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 427 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 378 - I much fear that this country (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it) could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict.
Page 15 - We could not get him on, and after burying the bodies, Aman and I, and a few others, sat by him while the gang went on : we were very fond of him, and tried all we could to tranquillize him, but he never recovered his senses, and before evening he died.
Page 12 - A Thug considers the persons murdered precisely in the light of victims offered up to the goddess; and he remembers them as a priest of Jupiter remembered the oxen, and a priest of Saturn the children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings ; he commits them without any emotions of pity; and he remembers them without any feelings of remorse.
Page 381 - Madrid have been rejected, leaves little hope of preserving peace. I have ordered the recall of my minister: one hundred thousand Frenchmen, commanded by a prince of my family, — by him whom my heart delights to call my son, — are ready to march, invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV. — of saving that fine kingdom from its ruin, and of reconciling it with Europe.