The Retrospective Review, Том 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... kind of peculiar and subtle spirit so completely his own , as to be equally indescribable and inimitable . We may compare it to that finishing touch which evening gives to a beautiful land- scape , where the want of glare and ...
... kind of peculiar and subtle spirit so completely his own , as to be equally indescribable and inimitable . We may compare it to that finishing touch which evening gives to a beautiful land- scape , where the want of glare and ...
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... kind of composition . Who would not applaud the ingenuity of him , who could engraft with success the apricot on the sloe , or the nectarine on the crab ? When we see a structure irregular and clumsy , but built of massy gold ; however ...
... kind of composition . Who would not applaud the ingenuity of him , who could engraft with success the apricot on the sloe , or the nectarine on the crab ? When we see a structure irregular and clumsy , but built of massy gold ; however ...
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... kind of debasement in the mind of Sir Philip Sidney , to descend from its native height and dignity to the low subjects of burlesque and humour . We feel that he was designed for other purposes than to make us laugh , and that such an ...
... kind of debasement in the mind of Sir Philip Sidney , to descend from its native height and dignity to the low subjects of burlesque and humour . We feel that he was designed for other purposes than to make us laugh , and that such an ...
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... kind are very rare , and of those , the principal and efficient cause was the imitation of the bad models of other countries . The conceits and quaintnesses of Sir Philip Sid- ney's language had their origin from the Italian school ...
... kind are very rare , and of those , the principal and efficient cause was the imitation of the bad models of other countries . The conceits and quaintnesses of Sir Philip Sid- ney's language had their origin from the Italian school ...
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... kind of acquired and adscititious loftiness ; and to diction , in itself noble and elevated , a sort of superadded dig- nity ; that power of ennobling the sentiments by the language , and the language by the sentiments , which so often ...
... kind of acquired and adscititious loftiness ; and to diction , in itself noble and elevated , a sort of superadded dig- nity ; that power of ennobling the sentiments by the language , and the language by the sentiments , which so often ...
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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.