The Retrospective Review, Том 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his untimely fate ...
... writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his untimely fate ...
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... writer in his own age , or in any which has gone before or succeeded it . His great defect was the want of judgement , which led him sometimes to adopt the forced conceits and quaintness of his contemporaries , and often induced him to ...
... writer in his own age , or in any which has gone before or succeeded it . His great defect was the want of judgement , which led him sometimes to adopt the forced conceits and quaintness of his contemporaries , and often induced him to ...
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... writer , is thus given by his friend , Lord Brook , with more , perhaps , in it of justice , than such characters ... write poetically , appear in him , prerogatives not derived , but inherent as if , of all that was elevated or ...
... writer , is thus given by his friend , Lord Brook , with more , perhaps , in it of justice , than such characters ... write poetically , appear in him , prerogatives not derived , but inherent as if , of all that was elevated or ...
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... write ; " and never was that writing unworthy of his character , when he gave utterance to the voice of inspiration within . When left to his own delightful windings along the green and bowery bye - paths he loved to frequent , when ...
... write ; " and never was that writing unworthy of his character , when he gave utterance to the voice of inspiration within . When left to his own delightful windings along the green and bowery bye - paths he loved to frequent , when ...
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... writer . Every great and noble sentiment , every peaceful image of hap- piness , and touching expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and ...
... writer . Every great and noble sentiment , every peaceful image of hap- piness , and touching expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and ...
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Страница 197 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Страница 85 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Страница 340 - I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.
Страница 333 - The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour : but the rich hath many friends.
Страница 197 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, 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 ! Thek.
Страница 95 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Страница 252 - No one that had any expectations from him was safe from his public contempt and derision which some of his minions at the Bar bitterly felt. Those above, or that could hurt or benefit him, and none else, might depend on fair quarter at his hands. When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place.
Страница 340 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Страница 79 - I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy...
Страница 194 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.