The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 6A. Constable, 1805 |
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... fay . From the extracts we have already given , our readers will perceive that the verfification is in the highest degree irregular and capricious . -The nature of the poem entitled Mr Scott to fome licenfe in this refpect , and he ...
... fay . From the extracts we have already given , our readers will perceive that the verfification is in the highest degree irregular and capricious . -The nature of the poem entitled Mr Scott to fome licenfe in this refpect , and he ...
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... fays , that his coloured folution had a certain imperfection , for that it was not purely red or purely green . He proceeds no farther , he does not pufh the inquiry to any general inferences ; and while we admit the neatnefs of the ...
... fays , that his coloured folution had a certain imperfection , for that it was not purely red or purely green . He proceeds no farther , he does not pufh the inquiry to any general inferences ; and while we admit the neatnefs of the ...
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... fays , a plate of glafs be expofed to the vapours of boiling mercury , and then held between the eye and a luminous body , a clear halo or co- loured circle is feen , in confequence of the reflexion of the light from the grains of the ...
... fays , a plate of glafs be expofed to the vapours of boiling mercury , and then held between the eye and a luminous body , a clear halo or co- loured circle is feen , in confequence of the reflexion of the light from the grains of the ...
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... fay that coloured bodies detain or ftifle ( as fome have called it ) the rays which enter them , by various reflexions and refractions within their fubftance , is abfurd . Refraction and reflexion can only ( our author fays ) divert ...
... fay that coloured bodies detain or ftifle ( as fome have called it ) the rays which enter them , by various reflexions and refractions within their fubftance , is abfurd . Refraction and reflexion can only ( our author fays ) divert ...
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... fay beforehand , that the white was lefs itrong than the other two ; and if it had been much lefs ftrong , it would ... fays that , to the fenfe , the three holes illuminated by red , yellow , and green rays , appeared to tranfmit equal ...
... fay beforehand , that the white was lefs itrong than the other two ; and if it had been much lefs ftrong , it would ... fays that , to the fenfe , the three holes illuminated by red , yellow , and green rays , appeared to tranfmit equal ...
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Page 15 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle.
Page 15 - Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. " The blackening wave is edged with white : To inch* and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh.
Page 15 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St Clair.
Page 11 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 13 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced. Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Page 483 - Formed upon a more enlarged plan of arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers. COMPREHENDING THE VARIOUS ARTICLES OF THAT...
Page 5 - Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 107 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Page 429 - You have a just and laudable zeal for the credit of these poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it.
Page 140 - ... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person.