Retrospective Review, Volume 10Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 - English literature |
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... " so ably supported " by Lord Aberdeen . It will be held , we hope , as no proof of a want of reveren- tial feeling for the genius and ability of Sir Christopher Wren , if , on this subject , we venture to call Gothic Architecture . 7.
... " so ably supported " by Lord Aberdeen . It will be held , we hope , as no proof of a want of reveren- tial feeling for the genius and ability of Sir Christopher Wren , if , on this subject , we venture to call Gothic Architecture . 7.
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... hope , be admitted to have proved enough , if we shew how they might and probably did originate . And first , of the pointed arch . " We have remarked , " says Doctor Milner , " that the Normans , affecting height in their churches no ...
... hope , be admitted to have proved enough , if we shew how they might and probably did originate . And first , of the pointed arch . " We have remarked , " says Doctor Milner , " that the Normans , affecting height in their churches no ...
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... what they desired . We hope the reader is now as much surprised as we were to learn that the " Gothic style , notwithstanding the richness and variety it afterwards assumed , appeared at once with Gothic Architecture . 15.
... what they desired . We hope the reader is now as much surprised as we were to learn that the " Gothic style , notwithstanding the richness and variety it afterwards assumed , appeared at once with Gothic Architecture . 15.
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... he was so firmly convinced of the validity of his claims , that on the day before he " had some dawning hope that his brother candidates would regard his uncommon motives , and not have opposed 28 Alexander the Corrector .
... he was so firmly convinced of the validity of his claims , that on the day before he " had some dawning hope that his brother candidates would regard his uncommon motives , and not have opposed 28 Alexander the Corrector .
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... hope from them ; but , while the spirit of inquiry pervades and estimates their public places and their dwellings , respect shall hallow our curiosity . We will re- member that they have been wise and ardent in their time ; and the ...
... hope from them ; but , while the spirit of inquiry pervades and estimates their public places and their dwellings , respect shall hallow our curiosity . We will re- member that they have been wise and ardent in their time ; and the ...
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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.