The Retrospective Review.., Volume 7Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
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Page 86
... affection into mortal hatred , and his avarice stifling all principles of nature and religion , he resolved to extinguish one of the lights of the universe . Dissembling , however , his black design , he besought the sage in the ...
... affection into mortal hatred , and his avarice stifling all principles of nature and religion , he resolved to extinguish one of the lights of the universe . Dissembling , however , his black design , he besought the sage in the ...
Page 125
... natural , to describe ordinary occurrences and characters , in simple and unaffected language ; -to be capable of insinuating moral instruction with amusement , and winning the affections , Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins , 125.
... natural , to describe ordinary occurrences and characters , in simple and unaffected language ; -to be capable of insinuating moral instruction with amusement , and winning the affections , Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins , 125.
Page 126
Henry Southern. moral instruction with amusement , and winning the affections , without an apparent effort to attract , -to play round the heart , touching the lesser chords of feeling , and gently pricking the foibles of mankind . Had ...
Henry Southern. moral instruction with amusement , and winning the affections , without an apparent effort to attract , -to play round the heart , touching the lesser chords of feeling , and gently pricking the foibles of mankind . Had ...
Page 132
... affection , at the end of the play , club together each other's fragments , and become heart - whole again . We ask the reader's pardon for speaking with so much levity of works , which , after all that can be said in detraction , are ...
... affection , at the end of the play , club together each other's fragments , and become heart - whole again . We ask the reader's pardon for speaking with so much levity of works , which , after all that can be said in detraction , are ...
Page 133
... affections , and deepest interest , irresisti- bly along with it . She has not been at the trouble to look out for subjects for her pencil of a peculiar and eccentric cast , nor cared to outstep the modesty of nature , by spicing with a ...
... affections , and deepest interest , irresisti- bly along with it . She has not been at the trouble to look out for subjects for her pencil of a peculiar and eccentric cast , nor cared to outstep the modesty of nature , by spicing with a ...
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