The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1821 |
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... ground of unqua- lified national vanity . Slaves cannot breathe in Eng- land . Yes , but they can breathe in the English West Indies , and breathe heavier groans ( it is said ) than in America . And we profit by this slavery , and we ...
... ground of unqua- lified national vanity . Slaves cannot breathe in Eng- land . Yes , but they can breathe in the English West Indies , and breathe heavier groans ( it is said ) than in America . And we profit by this slavery , and we ...
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... grounds of detail which no good taste would attempt to make picturesque to the fancy . As to fiction , it may seem superfluous to say that it belongs to poetry and to no other province of composition . It must be re- collected at the ...
... grounds of detail which no good taste would attempt to make picturesque to the fancy . As to fiction , it may seem superfluous to say that it belongs to poetry and to no other province of composition . It must be re- collected at the ...
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... ground of truth only to take a wider and more commanding prospect of its horizon . Thus when the dramatist brings together events and characters with a happiness and swiftness of succession that could hardly , if ever , exist in reality ...
... ground of truth only to take a wider and more commanding prospect of its horizon . Thus when the dramatist brings together events and characters with a happiness and swiftness of succession that could hardly , if ever , exist in reality ...
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... ground . Comedy indeed must , I think , on the whole , be called poetical in its nature ; and , as verse always heightens the expressiveness of language , as it wings the shaft of wit , and gives elasticity to the figures of fancy , it ...
... ground . Comedy indeed must , I think , on the whole , be called poetical in its nature ; and , as verse always heightens the expressiveness of language , as it wings the shaft of wit , and gives elasticity to the figures of fancy , it ...
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... ground was a preservative against it : they assured me it was not . I should be inclined myself to think it prejudicial . The descrip- tion which M. Volney gives of the samieli , called in Egypt khamsin ( the wind of fifty days ) , does ...
... ground was a preservative against it : they assured me it was not . I should be inclined myself to think it prejudicial . The descrip- tion which M. Volney gives of the samieli , called in Egypt khamsin ( the wind of fifty days ) , does ...
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Page 581 - Morning Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 83 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing...
Page 160 - T^EAR no more the heat o' the sun -*- Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages : Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 16 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art : Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 627 - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 627 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 250 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 518 - But rather to tell how, if art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient* pearl and sands of gold...
Page 492 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 387 - The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.