The Retrospective Review, Том 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... poetical justice , as a wrong conviction by a jury - moves a Ĥabeas Corpus for all damsels imprisoned in romance - and if the bard kills those of his characters who deserve to live , pronounces judgment on him as in case of felony ...
... poetical justice , as a wrong conviction by a jury - moves a Ĥabeas Corpus for all damsels imprisoned in romance - and if the bard kills those of his characters who deserve to live , pronounces judgment on him as in case of felony ...
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... poetical prerogatives of kings . No courtier ever contended more strenuously for their divine right in real life , than he for their pre - eminence in tragedy . " We are to presume , " ob- serves he gravely , " the greatest virtues ...
... poetical prerogatives of kings . No courtier ever contended more strenuously for their divine right in real life , than he for their pre - eminence in tragedy . " We are to presume , " ob- serves he gravely , " the greatest virtues ...
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... poem , and the play mentioned in the text ; and without any comment upon either . His poetical labours , in all probability , suffered some interrup- tion from his more warlike occupations , and this supposition is strength- ened by the ...
... poem , and the play mentioned in the text ; and without any comment upon either . His poetical labours , in all probability , suffered some interrup- tion from his more warlike occupations , and this supposition is strength- ened by the ...
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... Poetry in the Univer- sity of Oxford * . The appearance of Cowper in English poetry , was one of those literary phenomena which betoken the approach of a new age . The taste of the public mind , and the employment of the poetical talent ...
... Poetry in the Univer- sity of Oxford * . The appearance of Cowper in English poetry , was one of those literary phenomena which betoken the approach of a new age . The taste of the public mind , and the employment of the poetical talent ...
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... poetical ones . The fault ( so far as it is a fault ) is , not that his images and descriptions are familiar , but that they are too familiar for poetry . Still it is a truly pleasing composition - we ourselves , at least , have not ...
... poetical ones . The fault ( so far as it is a fault ) is , not that his images and descriptions are familiar , but that they are too familiar for poetry . Still it is a truly pleasing composition - we ourselves , at least , have not ...
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Страница 74 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Страница 90 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Страница 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Страница 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Страница 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Страница 93 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Страница 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Страница 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Страница 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Страница 91 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.