The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, Volume 3Hauer and Company, 1842 |
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... chief authorities on the subject . 6 -- The distinction between Imagination and Fancy is simply , ' as one writer tells us , that the former altogether changes and remodels the original idea , impregnating it with something ' extraneous ...
... chief authorities on the subject . 6 -- The distinction between Imagination and Fancy is simply , ' as one writer tells us , that the former altogether changes and remodels the original idea , impregnating it with something ' extraneous ...
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... chief reason ; in addition to which , it was the first oath I ever took , and the hesitation was , I think , natural . » It was now dismissed without any further questioning , and , how- ever trying had been this short operation , was ...
... chief reason ; in addition to which , it was the first oath I ever took , and the hesitation was , I think , natural . » It was now dismissed without any further questioning , and , how- ever trying had been this short operation , was ...
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... chief city Amsterdam . « For your amusement and improvement I did hope to com- pose a journal of our continental progress , with such referen- ces to Guthrie and the School Atlas as might enable you to trace our course on the Map of ...
... chief city Amsterdam . « For your amusement and improvement I did hope to com- pose a journal of our continental progress , with such referen- ces to Guthrie and the School Atlas as might enable you to trace our course on the Map of ...
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... chief judge , was charmed with it to such a degree , that he gave Ætion , who was a stranger , his daughter in marriage : : The scene , " says Lucian , is a handsome inner chamber , with a nuptial bed in it , on which Roxana , a most ...
... chief judge , was charmed with it to such a degree , that he gave Ætion , who was a stranger , his daughter in marriage : : The scene , " says Lucian , is a handsome inner chamber , with a nuptial bed in it , on which Roxana , a most ...
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... chiefs . Their seclusion from the world renders them totally ignorant of what is doing in it beyond their own immediate depen- dence ; despotic in their sway , the principal object of their lives is plunder and man - stealing . It was ...
... chiefs . Their seclusion from the world renders them totally ignorant of what is doing in it beyond their own immediate depen- dence ; despotic in their sway , the principal object of their lives is plunder and man - stealing . It was ...
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Page 371 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 172 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 229 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Page 116 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 359 - I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Page 90 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Page 358 - Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name "Crusoe," and so my companions always called me.
Page 20 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 127 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 81 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.