The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1828 |
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... king of Arragon's lament for his brother 445 I'd be a poetess 224 The summer sun had set 171 I love thee well , my dainty flower 335 The wilderness of shrubs and flowers 349 I oft have gazed on thee , sweet Anne 119 The old ash tree 474 ...
... king of Arragon's lament for his brother 445 I'd be a poetess 224 The summer sun had set 171 I love thee well , my dainty flower 335 The wilderness of shrubs and flowers 349 I oft have gazed on thee , sweet Anne 119 The old ash tree 474 ...
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... king was at first said to be left residuary legatee . This would have been a fine instance of romantic and gratuitous homage to majesty , in a man who all his life - time could never be made to comprehend the abstract idea of the ...
... king was at first said to be left residuary legatee . This would have been a fine instance of romantic and gratuitous homage to majesty , in a man who all his life - time could never be made to comprehend the abstract idea of the ...
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... king was sitting to him for his bust , fairly stuck a pair of compasses into his nose , to measure the dis- tance from the upper lip to the fore- head , as if he had been measuring a block of marble . His late majesty laughed heartily ...
... king was sitting to him for his bust , fairly stuck a pair of compasses into his nose , to measure the dis- tance from the upper lip to the fore- head , as if he had been measuring a block of marble . His late majesty laughed heartily ...
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... King's beam is six tons thirteen hun- dred weight . " LANGUAGE . The Abbé De Lisle says , that the Arabs have one hundred and fifty words for a lion , and three hundred for a serpent ! IN THE PRESS , NO . 2. ] [ VOL . 9 , N. 48 Varieties .
... King's beam is six tons thirteen hun- dred weight . " LANGUAGE . The Abbé De Lisle says , that the Arabs have one hundred and fifty words for a lion , and three hundred for a serpent ! IN THE PRESS , NO . 2. ] [ VOL . 9 , N. 48 Varieties .
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... King's at Versailles - of the almost equal dilapidation of which seat of royalty , I question whether he had ever heard ! My exertions , and those of the universal genius of the nearest town , whom I took into my councils , suc- ceeded ...
... King's at Versailles - of the almost equal dilapidation of which seat of royalty , I question whether he had ever heard ! My exertions , and those of the universal genius of the nearest town , whom I took into my councils , suc- ceeded ...
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Page 86 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 87 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 107 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death ; and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 25 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 176 - It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page 108 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Page 247 - And how would his magnanimous spirit have been consoled amidst the afflictions of age and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered, and the nations, and tongues, and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere and bless his name to the latest posterity...
Page 250 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 246 - We have already hinted at a peculiar trait in his rich and varied character; that ardent and enthusiastic imagination which threw a magnificence over his whole course of thought. Herrera intimates that he had a talent for poetry, and some slight traces of it are on record in the book of prophecies which he presented to the Catholic sovereigns. But his poetical temperament is discernible throughout all his writings and in all his actions. It spread a golden and glorious world around him, and tinged...
Page 107 - I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.