The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46A. Constable, 1827 |
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Page 187
... living faces beneath them , and this mumming has its significance . Richter is a man of mirth , but he seldom or never condescends to be a merry - andrew . Nay , in spite of its extravagance , we should that his humour is of all his ...
... living faces beneath them , and this mumming has its significance . Richter is a man of mirth , but he seldom or never condescends to be a merry - andrew . Nay , in spite of its extravagance , we should that his humour is of all his ...
Page 188
... living instances ; or of the Kotzebues , and other pale host of woe - begone mourners , whose wailings , like the howl of an Irish wake , have from time to time cleft the general ear . last perfection of our faculties , says Schiller ...
... living instances ; or of the Kotzebues , and other pale host of woe - begone mourners , whose wailings , like the howl of an Irish wake , have from time to time cleft the general ear . last perfection of our faculties , says Schiller ...
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... living figures . But in heroic personages , passionate , massive , overpowering as he is , we have scarcely ever a complete ideal : art has not at- tained to the concealment of itself . With his heroines again he is more successful ...
... living figures . But in heroic personages , passionate , massive , overpowering as he is , we have scarcely ever a complete ideal : art has not at- tained to the concealment of itself . With his heroines again he is more successful ...
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... living near the Museum , who only use it in the parts suited to their peculiar speculations and views . In selecting from this work some of the more interesting portions , with the view both of giving them greater circulation , and of ...
... living near the Museum , who only use it in the parts suited to their peculiar speculations and views . In selecting from this work some of the more interesting portions , with the view both of giving them greater circulation , and of ...
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... living but himselfe that hath any title to that so long controverted Crowne . Besides , upon that Kinges death , our King and State are obliged to doe more for a Nephew then for a brother in lawe ; and more likewise for a widdow then ...
... living but himselfe that hath any title to that so long controverted Crowne . Besides , upon that Kinges death , our King and State are obliged to doe more for a Nephew then for a brother in lawe ; and more likewise for a widdow then ...
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Page 169 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 276 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 187 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Page 188 - True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Page 17 - ENCYCLOPEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Page 283 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Page 180 - ... age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him,, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics: — 'Providence has given to the ' French the empire of the land, to the English that of the ' sea, to the Germans that of — the air...
Page 284 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 276 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 174 - Though I do not pretend to have the power of changing Mr. Pitt's opinion, when thus unfortunately fixed, yet I shall hope his sense of duty will prevent his retiring from his present situation to the end of my life; for I can with great truth assert that I shall, from public and private considerations, feel great regret if I shall ever find myself obliged at any time, from a sense of religious and political duty, to yield to his entreaties of retiring from his seat at the Board of Treasury.