The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse

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Leigh Hunt
H.L. Hunt, 1823 - 412 страници
Contains all parts of the 'Literary Examiner'. Originally published as No. 1, Saturday July 5, 1823 - No. 26, Saturday Dec. 27, 1823.
 

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Страница 162 - with a gladsome mind. Praise the Lord, | for he is kind. For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure. Let us blaze his name abroad, [ For of Gods | he is the God. For, &c. O, | let us his praises tell, Who doth the wrathful tyrants quell. | For, &c. Who,
Страница 71 - I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove, And flaunting honeysuckle." And by the name of woodbine in his Paradise Lost: " Let us divide our labours, thou where choice Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind The woodbine round this arbour, or direct
Страница 271 - they were everlasting dealers in matters of fact, and there was no end of their minute prolixity—one must suppose this mode pleased their betters, or was copied from them. Dogberry's declaration—" Were I as tedious as a king, I could find in my heart to bestow it all upon your
Страница 336 - And to yon starry world they now are gone. Spirits or Gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down : and even at this day "Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair.
Страница 365 - I think a person who is terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of ghosts fabulous and groundless. Could
Страница 99 - Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, My weary soul they seem to
Страница 98 - the hawthorn in the dale. How pleasant it is to read one of our poets in a foreign country! I pass from page to page, as I used from meadow to meadow, not omitting to enjoy the style by the way. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns and
Страница 31 - abdication in the following terms :—- " The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor is the only obstacle to the re-establishment of the peace of Europe, the Emperor, faithful to his oath, renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and declares that there is no sacrifice, not even that of life, which he is
Страница 162 - were in Israel shown, His praise and glory were in Israel known. That saw the troubled Sea, and shivering fled, And sought to hide his froth-becurled head Low in the earth ; Jordan's clear streams recoil, As a faint host that hath received the foil. The high huge-bellied mountains skip, like
Страница 308 - to harp at a fixed hour) Shaped by decay perchance, hath given the power To this grey ruin, with a Voice to charm. Sad, but serene, it sweeps o'er tree or tower: The cause I know not, nor can solve ; but such The fact:—I've heard it,—once perhaps too much. Amidst the court a Gothic fountain played,

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