Retrospective Review, Volume 7Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1823 - Bibliography |
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... quarrel with ourselves for entertaining one hostile feeling against its honest author . The name of Chillingworth has been written in association with terms of praise almost unqualified , by some of 2 Sickness , Heresy , Death ,
... quarrel with ourselves for entertaining one hostile feeling against its honest author . The name of Chillingworth has been written in association with terms of praise almost unqualified , by some of 2 Sickness , Heresy , Death ,
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... feelings in the original . We close the present article with the following particulars of the life of Cheynell : whether we have in the preceding re- marks taken a correct view of his character or not , we of course cannot presume to ...
... feelings in the original . We close the present article with the following particulars of the life of Cheynell : whether we have in the preceding re- marks taken a correct view of his character or not , we of course cannot presume to ...
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... feelings not a little increased by the melancholy contrast , which the splendour and magnificence of his dress ( now become an object of especial care ) presented to the feeble and wasted form it covered . During this season of affected ...
... feelings not a little increased by the melancholy contrast , which the splendour and magnificence of his dress ( now become an object of especial care ) presented to the feeble and wasted form it covered . During this season of affected ...
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... feeling , and only occasionally naming those self - evident errors which admitted of no toleration in the King's conduct . As much in this detail must necessarily recapitulate the events already mentioned , we shall only offer ...
... feeling , and only occasionally naming those self - evident errors which admitted of no toleration in the King's conduct . As much in this detail must necessarily recapitulate the events already mentioned , we shall only offer ...
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... feeling . Men began to perceive , that the absurdities which prerogative had been talking and acting for so many years were both ridiculous and oppressive ; that the British constitution , which had been so long perverted to serve only ...
... feeling . Men began to perceive , that the absurdities which prerogative had been talking and acting for so many years were both ridiculous and oppressive ; that the British constitution , which had been so long perverted to serve only ...
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Page 403 - As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring...
Page 395 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 396 - When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 392 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 404 - He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need : If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Page 396 - Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine, With all triumphant splendour on my brow; But out! alack! he was but one hour mine, The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; Suns of the world may stain when...
Page 394 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 383 - In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone.
Page 6 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery ? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Page 384 - Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.