The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, المجلد 34A. Constable, 1820 |
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... plant for posterity ; agriculture will be neglected , and famines ensue . proportion as population diminishes , the remaining inhabitants find it more difficult to provide a scanty subsistence : Such was the state of Italy in the worst ...
... plant for posterity ; agriculture will be neglected , and famines ensue . proportion as population diminishes , the remaining inhabitants find it more difficult to provide a scanty subsistence : Such was the state of Italy in the worst ...
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... plants , according to their natural orders . While it instructs us in the history of rocks as constituent parts of the earth , it does not exclude their history as mineral compounds : since we are enabled to combine with the former the ...
... plants , according to their natural orders . While it instructs us in the history of rocks as constituent parts of the earth , it does not exclude their history as mineral compounds : since we are enabled to combine with the former the ...
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... plant many of the excellences of others . Mr Farington takes the trouble to vindicate Sir . Joshua's title to be the author of his own Discourses - though this is a subject on which we have never entertained a doubt ; and con- ceive ...
... plant many of the excellences of others . Mr Farington takes the trouble to vindicate Sir . Joshua's title to be the author of his own Discourses - though this is a subject on which we have never entertained a doubt ; and con- ceive ...
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... plants and shrubs ; but they are not of native growth or origin . They do not spring up in the open air , but shrink from the averted eye of Heaven , like a Laplander into his hut . They do not sit as graceful ornaments , but as ...
... plants and shrubs ; but they are not of native growth or origin . They do not spring up in the open air , but shrink from the averted eye of Heaven , like a Laplander into his hut . They do not sit as graceful ornaments , but as ...
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... plant-- So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk ; from thence the leaves More airy ; last the bright consummate flower . ' And we think this image might be transferred to the slow and perfect growth of works of imagination . We ...
... plant-- So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk ; from thence the leaves More airy ; last the bright consummate flower . ' And we think this image might be transferred to the slow and perfect growth of works of imagination . We ...
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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...