The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... expressed by an astrono- mical metaphor , which he has contrived to distort with a per- verse ingenuity rarely surpassed . Bright , ' he says , as were ' the stars of its morning light , more brilliant still was the con- ' stellation ...
... expressed by an astrono- mical metaphor , which he has contrived to distort with a per- verse ingenuity rarely surpassed . Bright , ' he says , as were ' the stars of its morning light , more brilliant still was the con- ' stellation ...
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... expressed in the same identical phrase . We do not think it necessary to apologise for having dwelt so long upon a subject which we have already admitted to be of secondary importance . If we believed that Mr Alison had failed in one ...
... expressed in the same identical phrase . We do not think it necessary to apologise for having dwelt so long upon a subject which we have already admitted to be of secondary importance . If we believed that Mr Alison had failed in one ...
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... expressed than this feeling ; but we suspect that it has occasionally betrayed Mr Alison into unconscious , and not ... expression applied by Henry Grattan to Lord Chat- ham's oratory - that it was very great , and very odd . ' Its eccen ...
... expressed than this feeling ; but we suspect that it has occasionally betrayed Mr Alison into unconscious , and not ... expression applied by Henry Grattan to Lord Chat- ham's oratory - that it was very great , and very odd . ' Its eccen ...
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... expression , which , to borrow the emphatic words of Sidney , stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet . ' What soldier ever read without enthusiasm his account of the battle of Crecy ? Not , we are confident , Colonel Napier , whose ...
... expression , which , to borrow the emphatic words of Sidney , stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet . ' What soldier ever read without enthusiasm his account of the battle of Crecy ? Not , we are confident , Colonel Napier , whose ...
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... expressed our belief , that the excesses of every popular con- vulsion will generally be proportioned to the misgovernment which occasioned it . We are aware that this has been eagerly disputed ; but , without pausing to discuss ...
... expressed our belief , that the excesses of every popular con- vulsion will generally be proportioned to the misgovernment which occasioned it . We are aware that this has been eagerly disputed ; but , without pausing to discuss ...
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