The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volum 59

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Tobias Smollett
W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785
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Side 23 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Side 142 - Somewhat extravagant and wild, perhaps For joy of offer'd peace: but I suppose If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Side 249 - Obsequious, artful, voluble, and gay, On Britain's fond credulity they prey. No gainful trade their industry can 'scape, They sing, they dance, clean shoes, or cure a clap. All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows, And bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Side 302 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Side 142 - O friends ! why come not on these victors proud ? Erewhile they fierce were coming ; and when we, To entertain them fair with open front And breast (what could we more ?) propounded terms Of composition, straight they changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell, As they would dance ; yet for a dance they seem'd Somewhat extravagant and wild...
Side 419 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Side 84 - Earl of Bristol, then being in waiting and lying there, he unbolted the door upon my knocking, and asked me, ' What news ? ' I told him I had a letter for the king. The earl then demanded the letter of me, which I told him I could deliver to none but the king himself.
Side 19 - ... centre, and turning your eyes in idea to the North, you have on your right, many important kingdoms in the...
Side 188 - ... take them to a well, to put one into the one bucket, and the other into the other bucket, and let them down alternately into...
Side 250 - Well try'd through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave defcend, Officious, innocent, fincere, Of every friendlefs name the friend. Yet. Yet ftill he fills affeftion's eye, Obfcurely wife and coarfely kind; Nor letter'd arrogance deny Thy praife to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hovering death prepar'd the blow, His vigorous remedy difplay'd The power of art without the fliow.

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