The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 |
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... French ; and that even in the third case , the writer should be a native of that part of the United Kingdom , which most resembles the French nation in its manners , and which , ( formerly more than at present ) stands in the 18 ...
... French ; and that even in the third case , the writer should be a native of that part of the United Kingdom , which most resembles the French nation in its manners , and which , ( formerly more than at present ) stands in the 18 ...
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... French , are nearly equally proverbial with the reserve and taciturnity of the English . And yet , while the French nation abounds in certain lighter attempts of the histo- rical kind , they have not risen , in the present age at least ...
... French , are nearly equally proverbial with the reserve and taciturnity of the English . And yet , while the French nation abounds in certain lighter attempts of the histo- rical kind , they have not risen , in the present age at least ...
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... French critics , what the loadstone mountain , in the Arabian Tales , was to the vessels that were irresistibly attracted towards it with the certainty of destruction . The Recollections of America are , as may easily be imagined , of a ...
... French critics , what the loadstone mountain , in the Arabian Tales , was to the vessels that were irresistibly attracted towards it with the certainty of destruction . The Recollections of America are , as may easily be imagined , of a ...
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... French Government , having for its object the decision of the grand question , whether the South Sea ( the Pacific Ocean ) affords a passage into the Atlantic from the North : When I had made every preparation , I should have set out di ...
... French Government , having for its object the decision of the grand question , whether the South Sea ( the Pacific Ocean ) affords a passage into the Atlantic from the North : When I had made every preparation , I should have set out di ...
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... French poets , whose fame has scarcely reached England , and whose merits appear in a very questionable shape through the stiff and dis- torted medium in which specimens of their works are presented by the translator . Every where else ...
... French poets , whose fame has scarcely reached England , and whose merits appear in a very questionable shape through the stiff and dis- torted medium in which specimens of their works are presented by the translator . Every where else ...
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Page 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Page 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Page 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Page 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Page 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...