The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 |
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... Voltaire says , very justly , that , though worthy to command the na- tional taste , he was enslaved by it . Neither he , nor any dramatic writer of his time in Spain , appear to have atten- ded to , or even understood , the common ...
... Voltaire says , very justly , that , though worthy to command the na- tional taste , he was enslaved by it . Neither he , nor any dramatic writer of his time in Spain , appear to have atten- ded to , or even understood , the common ...
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... Voltaire when he resembles Lope to Shaks- peare , between whom we can discover no traces of affinity but those which are common to all writers in an age not yet arrived at the maturity of cultivation . In order to afford us a clearer ...
... Voltaire when he resembles Lope to Shaks- peare , between whom we can discover no traces of affinity but those which are common to all writers in an age not yet arrived at the maturity of cultivation . In order to afford us a clearer ...
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... Voltaire was well acquainted with this fact , and , most insidiously , trans- lated some of the finest soliloquies in Shakspeare into French blank verse , the very name of which is ludicrous in the extreme . With an equally blameable ...
... Voltaire was well acquainted with this fact , and , most insidiously , trans- lated some of the finest soliloquies in Shakspeare into French blank verse , the very name of which is ludicrous in the extreme . With an equally blameable ...
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... William Wyndham and Mr. Pulteney ( whose extemporaneous speeches , how- ever , Voltaire has pronounced to be equal to the studied 1 orations of Cicero and Demosthenes ) , let us venture Barron's Lectures on Belles Lettres and Logic . 281.
... William Wyndham and Mr. Pulteney ( whose extemporaneous speeches , how- ever , Voltaire has pronounced to be equal to the studied 1 orations of Cicero and Demosthenes ) , let us venture Barron's Lectures on Belles Lettres and Logic . 281.
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... Voltaire , the Lusiad of Camoens , the Leonidas of Glover , and the Epigoniad of Wilkie . The Henriade is by no means destitute of epic excellence . It is a singular effort of the extensive genius of its author , who possessed the ...
... Voltaire , the Lusiad of Camoens , the Leonidas of Glover , and the Epigoniad of Wilkie . The Henriade is by no means destitute of epic excellence . It is a singular effort of the extensive genius of its author , who possessed the ...
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Seite 353 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Seite 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Seite 353 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 353 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Seite 354 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Seite 354 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Seite 243 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Seite 125 - See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Seite 353 - Constitution: for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Seite 353 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.