The Retrospective Review, Том 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... shew them true Venetians , the maritime affairs stick not on their hand ; the public may sink or swim . They will sit up all night to hear a Doctors ' Commons matrimonial cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that ...
... shew them true Venetians , the maritime affairs stick not on their hand ; the public may sink or swim . They will sit up all night to hear a Doctors ' Commons matrimonial cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that ...
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... shew , and some mimicry to divert the spectators ; but the tragical part is clearly none other than a bloody farce , without salt or savour . " Our author's criticism on Julius Cæsar is very scanty , compared with that on Othello , but ...
... shew , and some mimicry to divert the spectators ; but the tragical part is clearly none other than a bloody farce , without salt or savour . " Our author's criticism on Julius Cæsar is very scanty , compared with that on Othello , but ...
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... shew with what indignity our poet treats the noblest Romans . But there is no other cloth in his wardrobe . Every one must wear a fool's coat that comes to be dressed by him ; nor is he more civil to the ladies - Portia , in good ...
... shew with what indignity our poet treats the noblest Romans . But there is no other cloth in his wardrobe . Every one must wear a fool's coat that comes to be dressed by him ; nor is he more civil to the ladies - Portia , in good ...
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... shew , that in every age when it has triumphed , it has appealed not to the mere love of excite- ment , but to the perceptions of beauty in the soul - to the yearnings of the deepest affections - to the aspirations after grandeur and ...
... shew , that in every age when it has triumphed , it has appealed not to the mere love of excite- ment , but to the perceptions of beauty in the soul - to the yearnings of the deepest affections - to the aspirations after grandeur and ...
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... shew ( says Paul ) one of our company , Tobias Solander , had his pocket picked of his purse , with nine crowns du soleil , which , without doubt , was so cleverly taken from him by an Englishman who always kept very close to him , that ...
... shew ( says Paul ) one of our company , Tobias Solander , had his pocket picked of his purse , with nine crowns du soleil , which , without doubt , was so cleverly taken from him by an Englishman who always kept very close to him , that ...
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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.