Retrospective Review, Volume 10Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 - English literature |
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... affections , the great globe itself , yea ! all which it inherit at its command , cannot collect materials for a home of universal bliss . But this difficulty has not de- terred the wisest and best of our race from indulging in such ...
... affections , the great globe itself , yea ! all which it inherit at its command , cannot collect materials for a home of universal bliss . But this difficulty has not de- terred the wisest and best of our race from indulging in such ...
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... affection for Filli , which has more heartiness and sensi- bility than we meet with in Bucolic love . The reader need scarcely be told , after reading the following extract , that the passion was real and the writer young . Carmosina ...
... affection for Filli , which has more heartiness and sensi- bility than we meet with in Bucolic love . The reader need scarcely be told , after reading the following extract , that the passion was real and the writer young . Carmosina ...
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... affection ; besides his judgment , he would often in his charges shine with his learning and wit . He was one of a clear con- duct , by principle honest and just , and , as we find in the best of that character , so he was intrepid ...
... affection ; besides his judgment , he would often in his charges shine with his learning and wit . He was one of a clear con- duct , by principle honest and just , and , as we find in the best of that character , so he was intrepid ...
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... affection to the king and the established laws in many weighty instances : and they were then quickly sent in their several circuits , to administer justice to the people , according to the old forms of law , which was universally re ...
... affection to the king and the established laws in many weighty instances : and they were then quickly sent in their several circuits , to administer justice to the people , according to the old forms of law , which was universally re ...
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... affection on it . Isa . Thus besieg'd , It is high time I summon up my virtue , All that is good about me , to assist My resolution : sir , I would be loath That you should see me angry ; ' tis a passion My modesty is unacquainted with ...
... affection on it . Isa . Thus besieg'd , It is high time I summon up my virtue , All that is good about me , to assist My resolution : sir , I would be loath That you should see me angry ; ' tis a passion My modesty is unacquainted with ...
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Page 340 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Page 340 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Page 55 - I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph.
Page 49 - ... Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : nay he doth, as if your journey should lie through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a .cluster of grapes, that full of that taste you may long to pass further.
Page 47 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 58 - Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? Do they call " virtue " there — ungratefulness ? XXXIX COME, Sleep ; O Sleep ! the certain knot of peace. The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Page 341 - That Majesty which through thy Work doth Reign Draws the Devout, deterring the Profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee, inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou...
Page 51 - ... since the Holy Scripture (wherein there is no uncleanness) hath whole parts in it poetical, and that even our Saviour Christ vouchsafed to use the flowers of it ; since all his kinds are not only in their united forms, but in their severed dissections fully commendable ; I think, and think I think rightly, the laurel crown appointed for triumphant captains, doth worthily, of all other learnings, honor the poet's triumph.
Page 334 - I'm sure I never wished them ill ; Nor do I for all this, nor will : But, if my simple prayers may yet Prevail with Heaven to forget Thy murder, I will join my tears, Rather than fail. But, O my fears ! It cannot die so. Heaven's king Keeps register of...
Page 73 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.