The Retrospective Review, Том 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... seem deter- mined to disallow the lavish praises of their forefathers , and to equalize the balance by as lavish and heedless censures . It was enough that the work was written after a bad model ; that it was interspersed with ...
... seem deter- mined to disallow the lavish praises of their forefathers , and to equalize the balance by as lavish and heedless censures . It was enough that the work was written after a bad model ; that it was interspersed with ...
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... seems to shrink from , and enduring more than earthly perils with more than earthly fortitude . We see them , now kneeling with submissive devotedness before their hard - hearted mistresses , treating them with an almost idolatrous ...
... seems to shrink from , and enduring more than earthly perils with more than earthly fortitude . We see them , now kneeling with submissive devotedness before their hard - hearted mistresses , treating them with an almost idolatrous ...
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... seems as if the breathing zephyr which hovers over scenes of such enchantment and beauty , had found a voice , and is painting to us the delights of its favourite and haunted groves . We feel them as the transfusion into language of ...
... seems as if the breathing zephyr which hovers over scenes of such enchantment and beauty , had found a voice , and is painting to us the delights of its favourite and haunted groves . We feel them as the transfusion into language of ...
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... seems to be a malignant desire to reduce the great of former ages to the level of common men ; to bring down their superiority , intellectual and personal , to valueless and vapid mediocrity ; and to demonstrate , that the lights which ...
... seems to be a malignant desire to reduce the great of former ages to the level of common men ; to bring down their superiority , intellectual and personal , to valueless and vapid mediocrity ; and to demonstrate , that the lights which ...
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... seems to have been as full of worth as his thoughts , and as brief as his book . He considered life but his walk , and heaven his home ; and that , travelling towards so pleasant a destination , " the shorter his journey the sooner his ...
... seems to have been as full of worth as his thoughts , and as brief as his book . He considered life but his walk , and heaven his home ; and that , travelling towards so pleasant a destination , " the shorter his journey the sooner his ...
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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.