Retrospective Review, Volume 14Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1826 - Bibliography |
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... spirit , falling like the shades of evening over those who retire from the world to " suck in the sweets of sweet philosophy , " amidst fields and flowers and woods , enlivened by the melody of birds and the busy hum of the myriads of ...
... spirit , falling like the shades of evening over those who retire from the world to " suck in the sweets of sweet philosophy , " amidst fields and flowers and woods , enlivened by the melody of birds and the busy hum of the myriads of ...
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... spirit , and the contentious wranglings of men , flee away and seem to be at rest . It is our firm belief , that no individual has ever yet existed , however depraved and aban- doned may have been his life , who has not felt ( more ...
... spirit , and the contentious wranglings of men , flee away and seem to be at rest . It is our firm belief , that no individual has ever yet existed , however depraved and aban- doned may have been his life , who has not felt ( more ...
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... spirit which has and for ever , we trust , will ani- mate our navy , than to any other cause whatever . We believe the fact ; and to White's Natural History of Selborne , by parity of reasoning , we feel inclined to assign the merit of ...
... spirit which has and for ever , we trust , will ani- mate our navy , than to any other cause whatever . We believe the fact ; and to White's Natural History of Selborne , by parity of reasoning , we feel inclined to assign the merit of ...
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... spirits , and undiminished vigour , on the wide Atlantic , at a greater distance from the land than we re- quire for our metropolitan tourist . Some instances of flight may not be unacceptable : the first on record within our sphere of ...
... spirits , and undiminished vigour , on the wide Atlantic , at a greater distance from the land than we re- quire for our metropolitan tourist . Some instances of flight may not be unacceptable : the first on record within our sphere of ...
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... spirits to the brain and genus ner- vosum of the birds ; which I sometimes fancy to be the reason why these birds are so restless in motion , and such continual singers !! And , perhaps , some reason may be taken from hence , why the ...
... spirits to the brain and genus ner- vosum of the birds ; which I sometimes fancy to be the reason why these birds are so restless in motion , and such continual singers !! And , perhaps , some reason may be taken from hence , why the ...
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Page 297 - This is mentioned to vindicate Tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes ; happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Page 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 105 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 316 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 288 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 297 - Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse.
Page 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 297 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 326 - Fate could not choose a more malicious hour! What greater curse could envious Fortune give, Than just to die, when I began to live! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave! Never, O never more to see the sun! Still dark, in a damp vault, and still alone!
Page 283 - Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.