The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Bind 57A. Constable, 1833 |
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... object . The charm of the composition is so great , that the first welcome duty of a critic is to request their reader to be sure during the perusal to keep in mind that object , in order that he may fully understand their value . 1833 ...
... object . The charm of the composition is so great , that the first welcome duty of a critic is to request their reader to be sure during the perusal to keep in mind that object , in order that he may fully understand their value . 1833 ...
Side 4
... object is plainly stated from the first upon her titlepage . Far from being an advertisement to a theatrical deception , it is a summons to the manifestation of solemn truths . In a very impressive and straightforward preface she ...
... object is plainly stated from the first upon her titlepage . Far from being an advertisement to a theatrical deception , it is a summons to the manifestation of solemn truths . In a very impressive and straightforward preface she ...
Side 5
... object proposed in Joanna Baillie's Plays upon the Passions ; and how beautiful the poetry in which the moral was there enshrined ! What , then , has frightened away her worshippers ? We have no doubt but that they would have been far ...
... object proposed in Joanna Baillie's Plays upon the Passions ; and how beautiful the poetry in which the moral was there enshrined ! What , then , has frightened away her worshippers ? We have no doubt but that they would have been far ...
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... object ought to be preeminently the people's science , has yet made but little way to popular power and favour . That this is so has arisen in part from a prevalent ignorance of its aim and promises . The consequence has been a vague ...
... object ought to be preeminently the people's science , has yet made but little way to popular power and favour . That this is so has arisen in part from a prevalent ignorance of its aim and promises . The consequence has been a vague ...
Side 9
... object of great utility , prominently announced and strictly pursued . The com- parative excellence of the several stories will therefore princi- pally depend on the degree in which this combination is attained . All are equally ...
... object of great utility , prominently announced and strictly pursued . The com- parative excellence of the several stories will therefore princi- pally depend on the degree in which this combination is attained . All are equally ...
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Side 115 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.
Side 508 - Though the State was to derive no advantage from the instruction of the inferior ranks of the people, it would still deserve its attention that they should not be altogether uninstructed. The State, however, derives no inconsiderable advantage from their instruction. The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders.
Side 508 - An instructed and intelligent people besides are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors. They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through, the interested complaints of faction and sedition...
Side 145 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 116 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Side 287 - I could be its duke at cost of these, I would not give them for it. Mark me, duke ! I saw a new-made grave in Mantua And on the headstone read my father's name : To seek me, doubtless, hither he had come — To seek the child that had deserted him — And died here ere he found me. Heaven can tell how far he wandered else ! Upon that grave I knelt an altered man, And, rising thence, I fled from Mantua, nor had returned, But tyrant Hunger drove" me back again To thee — to thee ! — my body to relieve...
Side 230 - Logic), there is no distinction between them ; eg " a Property which belongs to the ox, sheep, deer, goat, and antelope, belongs to all horned animals ; rumination belongs to these ; therefore to all.
Side 285 - Twas now abstraction — now a start — anon A pacing to and fro— anon, a stillness, As nought remain'd of life, save life itself, And feeling, thought, and motion, were extinct! Then all again was action! Disinclined To converse, save he held it with himself; Which oft he did, in moody vein discoursing, And ever and anon invoking Honour, As some high contest there were pending, 'twixt Himself and him, wherein her aid he needed.
Side 508 - A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of human nature.
Side 527 - In schools for females, the examinations to take place in presence of the parents and masters, without any general invitation.' ' But if the public instructors are bound to a faithful performance of their duties, they have a right, in return, to the gratitude and respect due to the zealous laborer in the sacred work of education. The school is entitled to claim universal countenance and aid, even from those who do not confide to it their children. All public authorities, each in its sphere, are enjoined...