The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, المجلد 34A. Constable, 1820 |
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... learned author some little distrust of that other favourite maxim , that Genius is the effect of education , encouragement , and practice . It is the basis , however , of his whole moral and intellectual system ; and is thus distinctly ...
... learned author some little distrust of that other favourite maxim , that Genius is the effect of education , encouragement , and practice . It is the basis , however , of his whole moral and intellectual system ; and is thus distinctly ...
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... learned fools , who assert that circumstances alone can create or develop genius , where none exists . We may distinguish a stature of the mind as well as of the body , —a mould , a form , to which it is predetermined irrevo- cably . It ...
... learned fools , who assert that circumstances alone can create or develop genius , where none exists . We may distinguish a stature of the mind as well as of the body , —a mould , a form , to which it is predetermined irrevo- cably . It ...
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... learned to paint like his master , if he had staid to serve out his apprenticeship with him ? The thing was impossible . - Hudson had every advantage , as far as Mr Farington's mechanical theo- ry goes ( for he was brought up under ...
... learned to paint like his master , if he had staid to serve out his apprenticeship with him ? The thing was impossible . - Hudson had every advantage , as far as Mr Farington's mechanical theo- ry goes ( for he was brought up under ...
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... was the capital of the Christian and of the civilized world . Her mitre swayed the sceptres of the earth ; and the G VOL . XXXIV . No. 67 . of a people who were in themselves learned , ingenious 1820 . 97 Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds .
... was the capital of the Christian and of the civilized world . Her mitre swayed the sceptres of the earth ; and the G VOL . XXXIV . No. 67 . of a people who were in themselves learned , ingenious 1820 . 97 Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds .
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Or Critical Journal. of a people who were in themselves learned , ingenious , and highly cultivated in all things , excepting the arts of design . In consequence of this privation , it was conceived that a Public Exhibition of the works ...
Or Critical Journal. of a people who were in themselves learned , ingenious , and highly cultivated in all things , excepting the arts of design . In consequence of this privation , it was conceived that a Public Exhibition of the works ...
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الصفحة 200 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
الصفحة 152 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
الصفحة 149 - For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
الصفحة 150 - Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle!" At the same time, Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him. He looked anxiously in the same direction and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place ; but supposing it to be some one...
الصفحة 154 - ... dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes ; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
الصفحة 200 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
الصفحة 154 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since,— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
الصفحة 148 - Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
الصفحة 151 - ... round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
الصفحة 150 - On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion : some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long...